Volga in Flames
Volga in Flames (French: Volga en flammes) is a 1934 historical adventure film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Albert Prejean, Valéry Inkijinoff and Danielle Darrieux.[1] It was made as a co-production between France and Czechoslovakia and is an adaptation of the 1836 novel The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin, set during the Cossack Rebellion against Catherine the Great.
| Volga in Flames | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Viktor Tourjansky |
| Produced by | Charles Philipp |
| Written by | Jacques Natanson Viktor Tourjansky Boris de Fast |
| Based on | The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin |
| Starring | Albert Prejean Valéry Inkijinoff Danielle Darrieux |
| Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
| Cinematography | Václav Vích Fritz Arno Wagner |
| Edited by | Antonín Zelenka |
Production company | AB Films Charles Philipp Omnia Paris |
| Distributed by | Astra Paris Films |
Release date | 9 February 1934 |
Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | France Czechoslovakia |
| Language | French |
The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrej Andrejew and Stepán Kopecký. It was shot at the Barrandov Studios in Prague.
Cast
- Albert Préjean as Orloff
- Valéry Inkijinoff as Silatschoff
- Danielle Darrieux as Macha
- Raymond Rouleau as Schalin
- Henri Marchand as Ivan
- Marcelle Worms as His wife
- Jacques Berlioz as Le colonel
- Nathalie Kovanko as Olga
- Václav Pata as Waiter
- Josef Zezulka as Guardsman
- Vladimír Borský
- Charles Camus
- Ladislav Hemmer
- Antonín Jirsa
- Josef Kytka
- F.X. Mlejnek
- Míla Reymonová
- Viktor Socha
- Jean Worms
References
- Driskell p.209
Bibliography
- Jonathan Driskell. The French Screen Goddess: Film Stardom and the Modern Woman in 1930s France. I.B.Tauris, 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.