The Great Citizen

The Great Citizen (Великий гражданин)
Directed by	Fridrikh Ermler
Written by	Mikhail Bleiman Manuel Bolshintsov Fridrikh Ermler
Starring	Nikolay Bogolyubov
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Edited by	Ye. Makhankova
Production company	Lenfilm
Release dates	13 February 1938 (1938-02-13) 27 November 1939 (1939-11-27)
Running time	252 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Great Citizen (Russian: Великий гражданин, translit. Velikiy grazhdanin) was the first Soviet made for TV movie. Made on March 25, 1938, it was directed by Fridrikh Ermler .

A fictionalized biography of Sergei Kirov (the character's name is Shakhov), the film was intended as ideological support for the Great Purges; it depicts life in USSR during the 1920s and 1930s.

Cast

• Nikolay Bogolyubov - Shakhov - the great citizen
• Ivan Bersenev - Kartashov - the conspirator
• Oleg Zhakov - Borovsky - the accomplice
• Zoya Fyodorova - Nadya
• Boris Poslavsky - Sizov
• Aleksandr Zrazhevsky - Dubok
• Boris Chirkov - Maksim, the investigator
• Pyotr Kirillov - Briantsev - the assassin
• Yefim Altus - Katz - Shakhov's helper
• Yelena Yegorova
• Yevgeni Pankov
• Yevgeni Nemchenko - Dronov
• Georgi Semyonov - Kolesnikov
• V. Kiselyov - Gladkikh
• A. Polibin - Solovyev
• Sergei Kurilov
• N. Raiskaya-Dore - Shakhov's mother
• Natalya Rashevskaya - Olga
• K. Ryabinkin - Kryuchkov

External links

• The Great Citizen at IMDb