Overview
An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
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Based on
Based on Chapayev
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Setting
Set in the Soviet Union
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Music
Music by Gavriil Popov
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Aleksandr Ksenofontov and Aleksandr Sigaev
Details
- Directors
- Writers
- Dimitri FurmanovBook
- Anna FurmanovaBook
- Georgi VasilyevScreenplay
- Sergey VasilevScreenplay
- Original title
- Чапаев
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 7, 1934
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
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In the United States
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Cast
Boris BabochkinChapayev
Leonid KmitPetka
Varvara MyasnikovaAnka
Boris BlinovFurmanov
Illarion PevtsovBorozdin
Nikolai SimonovZhikharev
Boris ChirkovPeasant
Stepan ShkuratBorozdin's striker
Vyacheslav VolkovYelan
Emil GalTall veterinary sergeon- Mikhail GipsiA red soldier
- Konstantin NazarenkoThe Lanky Fellow
Mikhail RostovtsevShort veterinary sergeon
Georgi VasilyevA white officer
Elena VolyntsevaPeasant woman
Viktor YablonskiyCossack
Georgi ZhzhyonovTeresha
Kostiantyn MukhutdinovRed army soldier in Chapaev division
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