Cities and Years (1930)
The last and only surviving silent film by director and actor Yevgeny Chervyakov. The film adaptation is distinguished by the accuracy of the psychological characteristics of the numerous characters (Chervyakov himself played the episodic role of an officer magnificently), the detail of everyday sketches of life in Germany and Russia, and the conveyance of the atmosphere of the events of the First World War and the Civil War. Parts 3 and 5 of the film have been lost.
Director:
Yevgeni Chervyakov
Writers:
Natan Zarkhi, Yevgeni Chervyakov, Dmitri Tolmachyov.
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Ivan Chuvelyov as |
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Bernhard Goetzke as |
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Gennadi Michurin as |
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Sofiya Magarill as |
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Andrei Kostrichkin as |
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David Gutman as |
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Maria Simakina as |
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Boris Medvedev as |
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Pyotr Pirogov as Polish |
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Yevgeni Chervyakov as |
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Vladimir Gardin as |
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Iona Biy-Brodskiy as |
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Dmitriy Zhiryakov as |
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Leonid Kmit as |
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Andrei Apsolon as |
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Emil Gal as |
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Lyubov Golovnya as |
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Kostiantyn Mukhutdinov as Sailor |
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Konstantin Nazarenko as |
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Fyodor Nikitin as |
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Sergei Ponachevny as |
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Boris Feodosyev as General and officer |
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Dimitri Kipiani as |
| Directing | Yevgeni Chervyakov | Director |
| Writing | Konstantin Fedin | Novel |
| Writing | Natan Zarkhi | Screenplay |
| Writing | Yevgeni Chervyakov | Screenplay |
| Camera | Svyatoslav Belyayev | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Alexandr Sigaev | Director of Photography |
| Art | Semyon Meynkin | Production Design |
| Directing | L. Ivanova | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Mikhail Gavronsky | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Dmitriy Astradantsev | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Dmitri Tolmachyov | Screenplay |