The Devil's Wheel (1926)
Overview
Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ru |
| Popularity | 0.728 |
Directed By
Grigori Kozintsev
Leonid Trauberg
Crew
Grigori Kozintsev
Leonid Trauberg
Adrian Piotrovsky
Andrey Moskvin
Evgeny Eney
TOP CAST
Lyudmila Semyonova
Valya
Pyotr Sobolevsky
Vanya Shorin
Emil Gal
Vaudeville Performer
Sergei Gerasimov
Man The Question
Andrei Kostrichkin
Drummer
Antonio Tserep
Tavern Owner
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