Kashtanka (1926)
Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child.
Director:
Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Writers:
Yuriy Bolotov, Olga Preobrazhenskaya.
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Yuriy Zimin as Fedya |
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Nikolai Panov as Georges, clown |
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Yevgeniya Khovanskaya as Owner of the night shelter |
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Naum Rogozhin as Mazamet, organ-grinder |
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Antonin Pankryshev as Luka |
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Leonid Yurenyov as Gvozd, vagabond |
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Yelena Tyapkina as Nastasya, washerwoman |
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Boris Snigiryov as Agafon, coachman |
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Gulya Korolyova as Girl from the Trubny market (uncredited) |
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Nikolay Trofimov as Street boy (uncredited) |
| Directing | Olga Preobrazhenskaya | Director |
| Writing | Anton Chekhov | Short Story |
| Writing | Yuriy Bolotov | Screenplay |
| Writing | Olga Preobrazhenskaya | Screenplay |
| Camera | Grigory Giber | Director of Photography |
| Art | Dmitri Kolupayev | Production Design |