Film
Ataman Khmil'
- Director
- Vladimir Gardin
- Year
- 1924
Revolutionary melodrama based on Lev Nikulin's story "Хміль". 1917. The main character of the film - a "bourgeois intellectual" - does not sympathize with any side and avoids revolutionary events. However, as a result of a series of adventurous adventures, love intrigues and communication with the people, he goes over to the side of the proletariat.
Top cast
Nikolai Saltykov
Ataman Khmil'
Nikolai Panov
Zagarin, landowner
Oleg Frelikh
Georgiy Zagarin, emigrant son
Zoya Barantsevich
Anna Zagarina, Georgiy's wife
Liana Iskritskaya-Gardina
Peasant girl
Iona Talanov
Vronskiy, estate manager
Anna Agramova
Chernenko, widow
Aleksandra Rebikova
Tanya
Boris Chuevskiy
Van-Gogen, banker
Olga Bystritskaya
Ryta Berg, former dancer
Mikhail Stalski
Captain Golde
Alexandr Gromov
Worker
Leo Negri
Count Svider Makhnitskiy
Fokht
Lyuba Zakharova
Directed by
Vladimir Gardin
Written by
Lev Nikulin