The Death Ray
1925 · 125 min
Science Fiction · Drama
★ 5.2In a Western capitalist country where a fascist government attempts to suppress a socialist uprising, revolutionary leader Thomas Lamm is imprisoned by the government but he escapes to the Soviet Union. There, he meets the engineer Podobed who invents the 'death ray' – a device which explodes gunpowder and fuel mixtures at a distance.
Crew
- Director Lev Kuleshov
- Writer Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Director of Photography Aleksandr Levitsky
Cast
Porfiri Podobed
Podobed, engineer-inventor
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Pater Revo, catholic priest
Sergei Komarov
Tomas Lann
Vladimir Fogel
Fog, fascist
Alexandra Khokhlova
Sharpshooter / Sister Edith
- S
Sergey Khokhlov
Freddie, Edith's son
- I
Inna Stravinskaya
Stoker's daughter
- A
A. Strabinskaya
Shura, Podobed's assistant
- A
Andrei Gorchilin
Rapp, electric technician
- A
Anna Chekulaeva
Rapp's wife
Pyotr Galadzhev
Ruller, factory owner / Circus director
Leonid Obolensky
Hard, leader of fascists
Crew
- Director — Lev Kuleshov
- Writer — Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Director of Photography — Aleksandr Levitsky
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