Penal Servitude
6.3
Early Soviet prison camp depiction set to the years of Revolution.
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Cast
9 people
Andrei Zhilinsky
Ilya Berts, convicts foreman
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Pavel Tamm
Peshekhonov
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Yuli Raizman
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Chess Fever
Sergey Yermolinsky
Vladimir Taskin
Illarion Ostrobeylo, prison director
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Mikhail Yanshin
Telegraph operator
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Vladimir Popov
Chernyak, warden
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Ivan Lavrov
(uncredited)
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Boris Lifanov
Katulski
Yuli Raizman Director · Sergey Yermolinsky Writer Leonid Kosmatov Cinematographer
First release November 28, 1928 · Produced in Russia · Original title Каторга
Production
Gosvoenkino
Production
Russia
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Languages
Original title
Каторга
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · November 28, 1928
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Germany
January 1, 1929
Netherlands
March 1, 1929
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