The Devil's Wheel

The Devil's Wheel

1926
40m
5.3

5.3/10

8 votes • View on IMDb
Action Crime
Overview

Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.

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Production Information

Production Companies
Lenfilm
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
No Language

Keywords

soviet realism

Quick Facts

Original Title Чёртово колесо
Release Date March 15, 1926
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt0016726

Cast

Pyotr Sobolevsky
Pyotr Sobolevsky

Vanya Shorin, Red fleet sailor

Lyudmila Semyonova
Lyudmila Semyonova

Valya

Sergei Gerasimov
Sergei Gerasimov

The Question Man

Emil Gal
Emil Gal

Koko, vaudeville performer

Antonio Tserep
Antonio Tserep

Tavern Owner

Nikolay Gorodnichev
Nikolay Gorodnichev

House manager

V. Lande
V. Lande

Cafe dancer

Sergei Martinson
Sergei Martinson

Orchestra conductor

Yevgeniy Kumeyko
Yevgeniy Kumeyko

Hooligan

I. Berezin
I. Berezin

Hooligan

Yanina Zheymo
Yanina Zheymo

Hooligan girl

Tatyana Ventsel
Tatyana Ventsel

Key Crew

Leonid Trauberg
Director
Grigori Kozintsev
Director
Adrian Piotrovskiy
Writer