Overview
The film is based on real events and reveals the tragic episodes from the life of the Austrian biologist scientist-materialist Paul Kammerer (1880-1926), hunted by regressive scientists and Catholic reactionaries who committed suicide.
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Louis Forestier and Aleksandr Shelenkov
Details
- Directors
- Writers
- Anatoli LunacharskyWriter
- Georgiy GrebnerWriter
- Original title
- Саламандра
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 11, 1928
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Germany, Soviet Union
Production
Cast
Bernhard GoetzkeProfessor Zange- Natalya RozenelFelitsia, professor's wife
Elza TemaryBerta, professor's assistant
Nikolai KhmelyovPrince Karlstein
Sergei KomarovBsheshinski, Jesuit
Vladimir FogelBaron, reactionary
Mikhail DollerRussian student Filonov, professor's assistant
Aleksandr ChistyakovPryer, typographer
Alexandr GromovShtrombakh
Anatoli Lunacharsky
Anna Zemtsova- Gyulbike Shcherbatova
- Vasili BokarevRich man
Mariya ShlenskayaEnamored old Polish woman
Daniil Vvedenskiy(uncredited)- Ivan Lavrov(uncredited)
Vladimir Tsoppi(uncredited)
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