Baltic Deputy
About Baltic Deputy
After the Bolsheviks take power, students turn to politics and most teachers distrust the new government. Elderly professor Dmitry Illarionovich Polezhaev takes the other path. He begins training Baltic sailors and is elected their deputy. Nikolay Cherkasov plays Polezhaev. The English Wikipedia says the character's prototype is Kliment Timiryazev.
Cast & crew
More about Baltic Deputy
Wikipedia credits Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi and calls it a 1936 film, while Wikidata lists only Zarkhi and dates publication March 27, 1937. Leonid Lyubashevsky wrote it and Mikhail Kaplan photographed it. The Wikimedia file is labeled 1936.
Themes
Background
The story is set in the first days of Bolshevik rule, with a scientist crossing over to the sailors of the Baltic Fleet.
Audiences
After the September 3, 1937, American premiere, the Pennsylvania board barred the film on September 27.
Look
Mikhail Kaplan is the cinematographer on Wikidata.
Notes
- The United States premiere was September 3, 1937.
- On September 27, 1937, the Pennsylvania censorship board banned the film from showing.
- Boris Livanov plays Misha Bocharov and Oleg Zhakov plays Vikenti Mikhailovich Vorobyov.
- Mariya Domashyova plays Masha Polezhayeva.
Scenes
- Polezhaev starts training Baltic sailors and is then elected as their deputy.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1936. Депутат Балтики.webm)
