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The White Eagle (1928)

The White Eagle (1928)

Drama History
Release Date: 1928, October 9
Directors: Yakov Protazanov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mezhrabpomfilm
Cast: Mikhail Zharov, Vasiliy Kachalov, Pyotr Repnin, Anna Sten, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Yury Vasilchikov, Ivan Chuvelyov, Alexandr Gromov, Andrey Petrovsky, Yelena Volkonskaya, Vsevolod Meyerhold

Overview:

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.