The Volga shipper
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German title | The Volga shipper |
Original title | The Volga Boatman |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1926 |
length | 120 minutes |
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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 | |
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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)