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Slesar’ i kantsler
(Locksmith and Chancellor)
(1923) Ukraine
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Vladimir Gardin

Cast: I. Khudoleyev (Ivan Khudoleyev) [Emperor of Norlandiya], Nikolai Panov [Chancellor von Turau], N. Tairova [von Turau’s wife], Vladimir Gardin [Gammer], Vladimir Maksimov [Frank Frey, lawyer], Zoya Barantsevich [Countess Mitsi], Iona Talanov [Berenberg], Nikolai Saltykov [Franz Stark, locksmith], Lidiya Iskritskaya-Gardina [Anna], Oleg Frelikh [Leo von Turau], Ivan Kapralov [Robert von Turau], V. Valitskaya [Lora von Turau, Robert’s wife], Olga Bystritskaya [Anna, Leo’s lover], A. Semyonov [Netli, the chancellor’s secretary], M. Arnazi

VUFKU production; distributed by [?] VUFKU? / Scenario by Vladimir Gardin and Vsevolod Pudovkin, from a play by Anatolii V. Lunacharskii. Production Design by Vladimir Yegorov. Assistant director, Olga Preobrazhenskaia. Cinematography by Yevgeni Slavinsky. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 9 December 2017.

References: Youngblood-Soviet pp. 16, 318 : Website-IMDb.