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The Death Ray (1925)
Directed by Lev Kuleshov
Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller · 2h 05m
In a Western capitalist country where a fascist government attempts to suppress a socialist uprising, revolutionary leader Thomas Lamm is imprisoned by the government but he escapes to the Soviet Union. There, he meets the engineer Podobed who invents the 'death ray' – a device which explodes gunpowder and fuel mixtures at a distance.
Cast
Porfiri Podobed
Podobed, engineer-inventor
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Pater Revo, catholic priest
Sergei Komarov
Tomas Lann
Vladimir Fogel
Fog, fascist
Alexandra Khokhlova
Sharpshooter / Sister Edith
S
Sergey Khokhlov
Freddie, Edith's son
I
Inna Stravinskaya
Stoker's daughter
A
A. Strabinskaya
Shura, Podobed's assistant
A
Andrei Gorchilin
Rapp, electric technician
A
Anna Chekulaeva
Rapp's wife
Pyotr Galadzhev
Ruller, factory owner / Circus director
Leonid Obolensky
Hard, leader of fascists
Crew
- Director
- Lev Kuleshov
- Writer
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Director of Photography
- Aleksandr Levitsky
Details
- Original title
- Луч смерти
- Release date
- 1925-03-16
- Runtime
- 2h 05m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Goskino