Red Partisans

Red Partisans (Russian: Красные партизаны, romanized: Krasnye partizany) is a 1924 Soviet silent war film directed by Vyacheslav Viskovsky.[1]

Red Partisans
Directed byVyacheslav Viskovsky
Written byBoris Leonidov
Starring
CinematographyFridrikh Verigo-Darovsky
Production
company
Sevzapkino
Release date
1924
CountrySoviet Union
LanguagesSilent
Russian intertitles

The film's art direction was by Vladimir Yegorov and Yevgeni Yenej.

Plot

In Siberia under occupation of the Whites, on the orders of Admiral Kolchak house searches and mass arrests of the Bolsheviks take place. The underground party committee entrusts Bolshevik worker Tokarev who managed to avoid arrest organization of a guerrilla unit in the taiga.

Meanwhile the White Guards occupy one of the Siberian villages, Zubarevka. Violence and looting commences. Peasant Stepan Dolgov when protecting his wife from harassment of an officer kills him and goes into the taiga. Here he meets with Tokarev. Later they are joined by a group of peasants who have fled from Kolchak. Tokarev and Dolgov form a small guerrilla unit made out of fugitives ...

Cast

References
  1. Christie & Taylor p.432

Bibliography
  • Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.


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