Mitya (1927)
Exposing the customs of provincial philistinism in the years of NEP. Small town. Mitya, going to the party of his bride Shurochka, finds a dying woman with infants. When he comes to visit the child, everyone decides that he was the father - and kicks him out. Mitya decides to drown himself. Unknown saves him and helps to stage his own funeral. During the mourning ceremony, Mitya rise from the grave, thanks the inhabitants petrified by horror, and leaves the city forever. Lost movie.
Director: Nikolai Okhlopkov
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Nikolai Okhlopkov as Mitya |
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Tamara Adelheim as Sofochka |
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Mykola Nademskyi as Poet-reporter |
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Serhii Minin as Unknown |
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Anastasiya Kozhevnikova as Shurochka Gryaznova |
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Yuri Chernyshov as Volodya Gryaznov |
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Teodor Brainin as Onion-stealing beggar |
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A. Gvozdeva as Shurochka's mother |
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Nikolai Korn as Kazak |
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Volodymyr Lisovskyi as Drunk best man |
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Ivan Malikov-Elvorti as Sober best man |
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Saksaganskaya as Mitya's mother |
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Aleksandr Sashin as Beggar who robs Mitya |
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Anastasii Symonov as Nervy nobleman |
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Anisim Suslov as Villager |
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Borys Zahorskyi as Dance steward |
| Directing | Nikolai Okhlopkov | Director |
| Writing | Nikolay Erdman | Writer |
| Art | Heinrich Beisenherz | Production Design |
| Camera | Marius Holdt | Director of Photography |