The Volga shipper

Movie
German title	The Volga shipper
Original title	The Volga Boatman
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1926
length	120 minutes
Rod
Director	Cecil B. DeMille
script	Lenore J. Coffee
production	Cecil B. DeMille
camera	J. Peverell Marley , ; Arthur C. Miller , ; Fred Westerberg
cut	Anne Bauchens
occupation
	William Boyd : Feodor, the Volga shipper; Elinor Fair : Vera, Princess of Russia; Robert Edeson : Prince Nikita; Victor Varconi : Prince Dimitri; Julia Faye : Mariusha; Theodore Kosloff : Stephen; Arthur Rankin : Vasili;

The Volga Boatmen (OT: The Volga Boatman ) is an American film drama of Cecil B. DeMille from 1926. The silent film based on the novel The Volga Boatman of Konrad Bercovici .

action

In tsarist Russia, the Volga shipper Feodor meets Prince Dimitri and his fiancée Vera. During the October Revolution , he met Vera again as an officer in the Red Army. He is ordered to shoot her, but is impressed by her bravery and saves her. Both flee, but fall into the power of Dimitri.

literature

Konrad Bercovici : The Volga Boatman. Illustrated with Scenes from the Photoplay, Personally Directed by Cecil B. De Mille . Scholarly Press, St. Clair Shores (Mich.) 1970, 233 pp., ISBN 0-403-00515-9
Robert K. Klepper: Silent Films, 1877-1996. A Critical Guide to 646 Movies . Jefferson (NC) and London 1999.

Web links

The Volga boatmen in the Internet Movie Database (English)