Gavroche

Name: Gavroche
Director: Tatyana Lukashevich
Genre: Drama, Family, Adventure
Released: 1937
Duration: 1 h 16 min
Cast: Nikolay Smorchkov, Pavel Massalsky, Ivan Novoseltsev, Nina Zorskaya, Eduard Gunn

1937 Drama Family 76 minutes Directed by Tatyana Lukashevich

About Gavroche

Gavroche learns that his father, sent to hard labor, has died. His hatred of the king takes him to the barricades at Montmartre.

Cast & crew

More about Gavroche

Tatyana Lukashevich directed this Mosfilm picture from the Gavroche chapters of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, not from the whole novel. Ilya Vaysfeld produced. Yosyp Shpinel and Aleksandr Zharenov designed it. Released 25 July 1937.

Themes

a boy whose father dies at hard labor
hatred of the king
the Montmartre barricade
Gavroche
Les Misérables
Montmartre
barricade
Mosfilm

Making

Mosfilm built a children's film on the Gavroche episodes rather than the full Hugo plot.

Look

Yevgeni Andrikanis photographed it.

Music

Yury Nikolsky wrote the music.

Notes

Nikolay Smorchkov plays Gavroche. Pavel Massalsky plays the thief Montparnasse. Ivan Novoseltsev plays Enjolras. Nina Zorskaya plays Madeleine, a flower seller.
Eduard Gunn plays the thief Gyulmer. Vasili Novikov plays Marseille.
The barricade is set at Montmartre.

Scenes

Gavroche hears that his father has died in exile at hard labor.
He goes to the barricades at Montmartre.

Influenced by

Victor Hugo's Les Misérables

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (1937. Гаврош.webm)