Overview
Young Soviet navy sailor Vanya Shorin misses his ship after meeting a girl at a funfair. They ride a carnival attraction called The Devil's Wheel, which triggers a series of events pulling the sailor into a dangerous criminal underworld before he finds the courage to return to his comrades.
Fun facts
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Andrei Moskvin
Details
- Directors
- Writer
- Adrian PiotrovskiyWriter
- Original title
- Чёртово колесо
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 15, 1926
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
Production
Cast
Pyotr SobolevskyVanya Shorin, Red fleet sailor
Lyudmila SemyonovaValya
Sergei GerasimovThe Question Man
Emil GalKoko, vaudeville performer- Antonio TserepTavern Owner
Nikolay GorodnichevHouse manager- V. LandeCafe dancer
Sergei MartinsonOrchestra conductor- Yevgeniy KumeykoHooligan
- I. BerezinHooligan
Yanina ZheymoHooligan girl- Tatyana Ventsel
Viktor PlotnikovSalvation army member
Arnold ArnoldEditor
Aleksandr Kostomolotsky
Aleksei Kapler
Andrei KostrichkinDrummer
Mikhail Shifman(uncredited)- Viktor ChaynikovSailor (uncredited)
- Nikolay Foregger(uncredited)
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