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1928 · 67 mins
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Directed by
Yakov Protazanov
Starring
Mikhail Zharov, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Anna Sten, Pyotr Repnin, Ivan Chuvelyov, Yury Vasilchikov

The film adapts Leonid Andreyev’s play The Governor. V.I. Kachalov portrays a provincial Russian governor who initially seeks to govern with kindness and fairness. When a factory strike erupts, he succumbs to the Tsar’s pressure and orders the mass killing of the strikers, only to be slain by a daring Bolshevik spy.

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