The White Eagle
1928 · 67 min
Drama · History
★ 5.3The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.
Crew
- Director Yakov Protazanov
- Writer Yakov Urinov
- Writer Oleg Leonidov
- Writer Yakov Protazanov
- Director of Photography Pyotr Yermolov
Cast
Vasiliy Kachalov
Governor
Anna Sten
Governess
Vsevolod Meyerhold
State official
Ivan Chuvelyov
Provocator
Andrey Petrovsky
Police general
Pyotr Repnin
Archbishop
Yury Vasilchikov
Official
Mikhail Zharov
Official
- Y
Yelena Volkonskaya
Governor's wife
Alexandr Gromov
Revolutionary
Aleksandr Chistyakov
State prisoner
Nikolay Muratov
(uncredited)
Crew
- Director — Yakov Protazanov
- Writer — Yakov Urinov
- Writer — Oleg Leonidov
- Writer — Yakov Protazanov
- Director of Photography — Pyotr Yermolov
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