Red Devils (film)

Red Devils
Red Devils
Directed by	Ivan Perestiani; Pavel Blyakhin
Written by	Ivan Perestiani; Pavel Blyakhin
Starring	Pavel Yesikovsky; Sofia Josephey; Kador Ben-Salim; Vladimir Kucherenko;
Cinematography	Aleksander Digmelov
Music by	I. Gokieli
Production; companies	Cinema section of People's Commissariat of Georgia; Odessa Film Studio
Release date	1923;
Running time	139 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Red Devils (Russian: Красные дьяволята, romanized: Krasnye dyavolyata) is a 1923 Soviet adventure film directed by Ivan Perestiani based on the eponymous story by Pavel Blyakhin.[1][2] It has become one of the most famous and oft-quoted works of the Soviet adventure film.[3]

Plot

The film is about the adventures of three young agents, fighters of the 1st Cavalry Army, set against the background of the Russian Civil War and the struggle with the Makhnovist forces. At the beginning Nestor Makhno and his troops attack the village, committing various crimes, including murdering peasants, robbing huts, stealing livestock, killing communists. In the attack, a man's father is captured, tortured and killed under Makhno's orders. Afterwards, the three of them organize a detachment against Makhno.

Cast

Pavel Yesikovsky - Misha
Sofia Josephey - Dunyasha, Misha's sister
Kador Ben-Salim - Tom Jackson
Vladimir Kucherenko (credited as Vladimir Sutyrin) - Makhno
Konstantin Davidovsky - Budyonny
G. Lane - Petrov, worker, father of Misha and Dunyashi
Nikolay Nirov - Garbuzenko
Svetlana Lux - Oksana
Jan Burinsky - captain
Zakariy Berishvili - bandit
Georgiy Makarov - bandit
Patwakan Barkhudaryan - bandit

Sequels

External links

Krasnye dyavolyata (1923) at IMDb

References

Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 412. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 168.
Geldern, James Von; Stites, Richard (1995). Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953. ISBN 0253328934.

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[1] Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 412. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.

[2] Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 168.

[3] Geldern, James Von; Stites, Richard (1995). Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953. ISBN 0253328934.