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The Gadfly (1955)
Directed by Alexandr Faintsimmer
Drama, Action, War, Adventure · 1h 42m
Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization “Young Italy”, envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and is jealous of his bride Gemma. He talks about this at a confession to a priest, as a result of which gendarmes take revolutionaries under arrest...
Cast
Oleg Strizhenov
Arthur Burton / Felice Rivarez
Marianna Strizhenova
Gemma
Nikolai Simonov
Cardinal Montanelli
Vladimir Etush
Cesare Martini
Semyon Svashenko
Marcone
Pavel Usovnichenko
Giuseppe
Vadim Medvedev
Giovanni Bolla
Vladimir Chestnokov
Domenichino
Ruben Simonov
Father Cardi
Antoni Khodursky
Grassini
Anna Lisyanskaya
Grassini's Wife
Grigoriy Shpigel
James Burton
Crew
- Director
- Alexandr Faintsimmer
- Writer
- Yevgeni Gabrilovich
- Novel
- Ethel LIlian Voynich
- Director of Photography
- Andrey Moskvin
- Original Music Composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Editor
- Aleksandra Borovskaya
Details
- Original title
- Овод
- Release date
- 1955-04-12
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Drama, Action, War, Adventure
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Lenfilm