Locksmith and Chancellor

CinematographyYevgeni SlavinskyCountrySoviet UnionLanguagesSilent
Russian intertitles

Locksmith and Chancellor (Russian: Слесарь и Канцлер, romanized: Slesar i kantsler) is a 1923 Soviet silent film directed by Vladimir Gardin based on the play of Anatoli Lunacharsky.^[1][2]

The film's art direction was by Vladimir Yegorov [ru].

Synopsis

The Government of the fictional country Norland has unleashed a war with the neighboring Galikania and is suffering one defeat after another. A group of conspirators who were dissatisfied with this state of affairs, led by the Social Democrat Frank Frey arrange a coup to overthrew the emperor of Norland. But the working class does not like the new order either. Workers expose Frank Frey's policy of continuing the war and a revolution breaks out in the country. The leader of the socialist revolution becomes a mechanic of the name Franz Stark.

Cast

• Ivan Khudoleyev as Emperor of Norland
• Nikolai Panov as Chancellor von Turau
• N. Tairova as von Turau's wife
• Vladimir Gardin as Gammer
• Vladimir Maksimov as Frank Frey, lawyer
• Zoya Barantsevich as Countess Mitsi
• Iona Talanov as Berenberg
• Nikolai Saltykov as Franz Stark, locksmith
• Lidiya Iskritskaya-Gardina as Anna
• Oleg Frelikh as Leo von Turau
• Ivan Kapralov as Robert von Turau
• V. Valitskaya as Lora von Turau, Robert's wife
• Olga Bystritskaya as Anna, Leo's lover
• A. Semyonov as Netli, chancellor's secretary
• M. Arnazi
• Aleksandra Rebikova
• Evgeniy Gryaznov
• Karl Tomski
• Nikolay Popov
• Stepan Kuznetsov
• Olga Preobrazhenskaya

References

Bibliography

• Sargeant, Amy. Vsevolod Pudovkin: Classic Films of the Soviet Avant-garde. I.B.Tauris, 2001.

External links

• Locksmith and Chancellor at IMDb