The Devil's Wheel
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.
Year: 1926
Studio: Lenfilm
Director: Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Cast: Pyotr Sobolevsky, Lyudmila Semyonova, Sergei Gerasimov, Emil Gal, Antonio Tserep, Nikolay Gorodnichev
Crew: Grigori Kozintsev (Director), Leonid Trauberg (Director), Adrian Piotrovskiy (Writer), Andrey Moskvin (Director of Photography), Evgeny Eney (Production Design)
Runtime: 40 minutes
Release: Mar 15, 1926
IMDb: 5.72/10 by 9 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Soviet Union
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : soviet realism
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