Plot
Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.
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Cast
Viktor Khokhryakov
Narrator
Leo Tolstoy
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Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
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Aleksandra Goncharova
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Michael Chekhov
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Nikolai Vasilyev
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Pavel Knorr
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Andrey Gromov
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Ivan Mosjoukine
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Antoni Fertner
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Olga Drevnitskaya
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Ivan Poddubniy
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Pyotr Nesterov
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Georgiy Sedov
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Vera Kholodnaya
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Vladimir Maksimov
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Vera Karalli
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Vitold Polonsky
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Olga Gzovskaya
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Ivane Perestiani
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Ivan Khudoleyev
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Ossip Runitsch
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Nathalie Lissenko
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Vera Yureneva
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Lidiya Koreneva
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Lidiya Tridenskaya
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Feodor Chaliapin Sr.
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Konstantin Stanislavski
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Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
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Olga Knipper-Chekhova
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Ivan Moskvin
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Vladimir Lenin
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