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Wings of a Serf (1928)

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with historical materialist commentary on the dialectical collision of scientific progress and patriarchal religious tyranny under Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It follows a self-taught inventor from the serf class Nikishka, whose efforts to build a flying machine incite accusations of witchcraft. Nikishka and his beloved Fima are persecuted by the feudal lord Kurlyatev, who took their village in a petty land squabble. They’re rescued when Kurlyatev’s lands are taken by the Tsar in his autocratic campaign against the feudal system. Ivan puts Nikishka to work in his linen mill, where the young serf is coveted by Tsarina Maria Temryukovna, who the Tsar’s been ignoring in favor of his cupbearer Feodor. A series of harrowing intrigues wind a bloody dance through bedchamber, feast hall, cathedral and dungeon.
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This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with historical materialist commentary on the dialectical collision of scientific progress and patriarchal religious tyranny under Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It follows a self-taught inventor from the serf class Nikishka, whose efforts to build a flying machine incite accusations of witchcraft. Nikishka and his beloved Fima are persecuted by the feudal lord Kurlyatev, who took their village in a petty land squabble. They’re rescued when Kurlyatev’s lands are taken by the Tsar in his autocratic campaign against the feudal system. Ivan puts Nikishka to work in his linen mill, where the young serf is coveted by Tsarina Maria Temryukovna, who the Tsar’s been ignoring in favor of his cupbearer Feodor. A series of harrowing intrigues wind a bloody dance through bedchamber, feast hall, cathedral and dungeon.

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Genre:Drama, History
Directed By:Yuri Tarich, Leonid Leonidov
Written By:Yuri Tarich, Viktor Shklovskiy, Konstantin Schildkroet
In Theaters:3/11/1928
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Runtime:73 minutes
Studio:Sovkino

Cast

Director

Yuri Tarich, Leonid Leonidov

Director

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Ivan Klyukvin

Nikishka

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Leonid Leonidov

Tsar Ivan the Terrible

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Safiyat Askarova

Maria Temriukovna

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Vladimir Korsh

Tsarevich Ivan

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Nikolai Prozorovsky

Feodor Basmanov

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Sofya Garrel

Fima

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Aleksandr Zhukov

Vaska Gryaznov

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Lev Ivanov

Guard (uncredited)

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Konstantin Efimov

Metropolitan

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Ivan Kachalov

Malyuta Skuratov

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Vladimir Makarov

Lupatov

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