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Cities and Years (1930)

Directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov

Overview

The last and only surviving silent film by director and actor Yevgeny Chervyakov. The film adaptation is distinguished by the accuracy of the psychological characteristics of the numerous characters (Chervyakov himself played the episodic role of an officer magnificently), the detail of everyday sketches of life in Germany and Russia, and the conveyance of the atmosphere of the events of the First World War and the Civil War. Parts 3 and 5 of the film have been lost.

Length 81 minutes

Actors

Ivan Chuvelyov | Bernhard Goetzke | Gennadi Michurin | Sofiya Magarill | Andrei Kostrichkin | David Gutman | Maria Simakina | Boris Medvedev | Pyotr Pirogov | Yevgeni Chervyakov | Vladimir Gardin | Iona Bij-Brodsky | Dmitriy Zhiryakov | Leonid Kmit | Andrei Apsolon | Emil Gal | Lyubov Golovnya | Kasim Mukhutdinov | Konstantin Nazarenko | Fyodor Nikitin | Сергей Поначевный | Boris Feodosyev | Dimitri Kipiani