Leonid OBOLENSKY
Леонид ОБОЛЕНСКИЙ
Leonid OBOLENSKI
USSR, 1929  
fiction
The Merchants of Glory
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Торговцы славой

 

 Les Marchands de gloire

 Torkovtsy slavoy

 
Directed by : Leonid OBOLENSKY (Леонид ОБОЛЕНСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Leonid OBOLENSKY (Леонид ОБОЛЕНСКИЙ), Nikolay RAVICH (Николай РАВИЧ)
Based on the play by M. Pagnol and P. Nivua.
 
Cast
Vsevolod AKSENOV (Всеволод АКСЕНОВ) ...Henri Bachelet
Anelle SUDAKEVICH (Анель СУДАКЕВИЧ) ...Germaine Bachelet
Vladimir BARSKY (Владимир БАРСКИЙ) ...Blanchar
Pavel POL (Павел ПОЛЬ)
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr DORN (Александр ДОРН)
Production design : Sergey KOZLOVSKI (Сергей КОЗЛОВСКИЙ)
Production : Mzhrabrom-Rus
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
The film is set in France during World War I. Bachelet's father and son are members of the French army. After the death of Bachelet Jr., he is called a national hero, actively using the fact of his death in the election campaign to fight communism. At the time of the opening of the monument in his honor, the hero himself appears, having returned to his homeland. It turns out that Bashlet Jr. was actually only shell-shocked, not killed. He uses the current situation to call on the audience to stop the imperialist war. This is followed by his arrest and charges of imposture.
The film survived without parts 1, 4 and 6.
 

Commentaries
À propos de l’image de la France dans quelques films soviétiques (1929-1956), Natalia IAKOVLEVA, Presses Universitaires du Midi, Le Cinéma "stalinien", 2003