His Call
1925 film
- 17 February 1925 (1925-02-17)
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His Call (Russian: Его призыв, romanized: Yego prizyv) is a 1925 Soviet drama film directed by Yakov Protazanov. It was also released as 23 January (Russian: 23 января) in the Soviet Union and as Broken Chains in the United States.[1]
Plot
The main protagonists of the film are Katya, the daughter of a factory worker and Andrey, the son of the former owner of the factory who illegally returns to the USSR to find treasures hidden by his father. The film title refers to the Communist party's appeal, after Lenin's death, to enlarge its membership.
Cast
- Varvara Popova as Katya Sushkova
- Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina as Katya's grandmother
- Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Andrey
- Olga Zhizneva as Lulu
- Anatoly Ktorov as Vladimir Zaglobin
- Vera Maretskaya as Varya
- Mikhail Zharov as Worker
- Tatyana Mukhina as Girl
References
- ^ Его призыв at the kino-teatr.ru
- Bibliography
- Leyda, Jay (1960), Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, New York: Macmillan, OCLC 1683826.
- Aleinikov, Moisei, ed. (1957), Yakov Protazanov: O tvorcheskom puti rezhissera (in Russian), Moscow: Iskusstvo, OCLC 13571289.
External links
- His Call at IMDb
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Yakov Protazanov filmography
- Departure of a Grand Old Man (1912)
- The Queen of Spades (1916)
- Satan Triumphant (1917)
- Father Sergius (1917)
- Aelita (1924)
- His Call (1925)
- The Tailor from Torzhok (1925)
- The Three Million Trial (1926)
- Man from the Restaurant (1927)
- The Forty-First (1927)
- The White Eagle (1928)
- St. Jorgen's Day (1930)
- Tommy (1931)
- Marionettes (1934)
- Without Dowry (1937)
- Salavat Yulayev (1941)
- Nasreddin in Bukhara (1943)
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