The White Eagle
Белый орёл
Release: 1928-10-09
·Runtime: 67m
·★ 4.9
Drama
History
The 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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mezhrabpomfilm
Cast
Anna Sten
as Governess
Vsevolod Meyerhold
as State official
Pyotr Repnin
as Archbishop
Yury Vasilchikov
as Official
Mikhail Zharov
as Official
Aleksandr Chistyakov
as State prisoner
Vasiliy Kachalov
as Governor
Ivan Chuvelyov
as Provocator
Andrey Petrovsky
as Police general
Alexandr Gromov
as Revolutionary
