Penal Servitude

Name: Penal Servitude
Released: 1928-11-28
Cast: Andrei Zhilinsky, Pavel Tamm, Vladimir Taskin, Mikhail Yanshin, Vladimir Popov

1928

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Early Soviet prison camp depiction set to the years of Revolution.

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Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.

Russian

Director: Yuli Raizman

Writer: Sergey Yermolinsky

Top Cast

Andrei Zhilinsky

Ilya Berts, convicts foreman

Pavel Tamm

Peshekhonov

Vladimir Taskin

Illarion Ostrobeylo, prison director

Mikhail Yanshin

Telegraph operator

Vladimir Popov

Chernyak, warden

Ivan Lavrov

(uncredited)

Boris Lifanov

Katulski

Keywords

revolution soviet union silent film prison camp

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