My Son (1928 film)

1928 film

Yevgeni Chervyakov
Nikolay Dirin
Yuri Gromov

Starring

Gennadiy Michurin
Anna Sten
Pyotr Berezov

CinematographySvyatoslav Belyayev

Production
company

Sovkino

Release date

1928 (1928)

CountrySoviet UnionLanguagesSilent
Russian intertitles

My Son (Russian: Мой сын, romanized: Moy syn) is a 1928 Soviet silent drama film directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov and starring Gennadiy Michurin, Anna Sten and Pyotr Berezov.^[1]^[2]

Plot

A wife admits to her husband that the child to whom she gave birth is not from him. After this the life of the protagonist changes dramatically.^[3]

Interesting facts

The film was lost during the Great Patriotic War.

In 2008, five 16mm film reels of a film without the original titles, labeled as "El Hijo del otro" ("The son of another") were found in Argentina. Copies of the film were kept in the archive of the Museum of Cinema in Buenos Aires. Some film critics regard this event as "the biggest archival discovery in the history of Russian cinema in the last half century," and liken it to the "release of the second part of Ivan the Terrible.^[4]

Cast

Gennadiy Michurin as Andrey Surin
Anna Sten as Olga Surina
Pyotr Berezov as Gregor
Lyudmila Semyonova as Neighbour
Nikolay Cherkasov as Pat
Boris Chirkov as Patashon
Fyodor Nikitin as A thief
Ursula Krug as Neighbour
Nadezhda Yermakovich

References

^ Rollberg p.666
^ Bryher (1922). Film Problems Of Soviet Russia. Riant Chateau TERRITET Switzerland. pp. 92–94.
^ Kenneth Macpherson (November 1928). "Six Russian Films (Concluded) The Son (Das Kind des Andern)". Close Up. Pool Group. pp. 46–49.
^ Pyotr Bagrov (July 2010). "О Евгении Червякове. Режиссер экзистенциального кино" [About Yevgeni Chervyakov. Director of existential cinema] (in Russian). Isskustvo Kino. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2011.