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.
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Nikolai Saltykov
Ataman Khmil'
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Olga Bystritskaya
Ryta Berg, former dancer
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Vladimir Gardin Director · Lev Nikulin Writer Boris Zavelev Cinematographer
First release January 22, 1924 · Produced in Russia · Original title Отаман Хміль
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VUFKU
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Russia
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Original title
Отаман Хміль
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Russia · January 22, 1924
Premiere · Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg)
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
April 17, 1924 · Premiere · Moscow
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