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The White Eagle (1929)
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.
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The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.
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Genre:Drama, History
Written By:Oleg Leonidov, Yakov Urinov, Yakov Protazanov
In Theaters:2/11/1929
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Runtime:67 minutes
Studio:Mezhrabpomfilm
Cast
Yakov Protazanov
Director
Vasiliy Kachalov
Governor
Anna Sten
Governess
Vsevolod Meyerhold
State official
Ivan Chuvelyov
Provocator
Andrey Petrovsky
Police general
Pyotr Repnin
Archbishop
Yury Vasilchikov
Official
Mikhail Zharov
Official
Yelena Volkonskaya
Governor's wife
Alexandr Gromov
Revolutionary
Aleksandr Chistyakov
State prisoner
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