The Artamonov Case
About The Artamonov Case
Ilya Artamonov, a former serf turned factory owner, pushes the business without pause and still keeps ties to peasants and craftsmen. Those ties break when he dies. His son Pyotr fights the workers, and that fight passes to Ilya Artamonov Jr. Grigori Roshal's Mosfilm drama follows Maxim Gorky's novel.
Cast & crew
More about The Artamonov Case
Sergei Yermolinsky wrote the screenplay and Leonid Kosmatov photographed the Mosfilm drama, which Wikidata dates to October 8, 1941. The English Wikipedia title is The Artamonov Business.
Themes
Background
Gorky's novel follows a manufacturing family from the end of serfdom into a clash with its own workers.
Look
Leonid Kosmatov photographed the Mosfilm production.
Music
Marian Koval is the composer credited on Wikidata.
Notes
- Sergei Romodanov plays Ilya Artamonov and Mikhail Derzhavin Sr. plays Pyotr.
- Vera Maretskaya plays Natalya and Lyubov Orlova plays Paula Menotti.
- Mikhail Pugovkin plays Stepasha Barsky. Nadir Malishevsky plays Ilya Jr.
- The Wikimedia file uses the Russian title Дело Артамоновых and the year 1941.
Scenes
- Ilya's death ends the family's remaining tie to the peasants and craftsmen who had known him.
Influenced by
- Maxim Gorky's novel The Artamonov Business
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1941. Дело Артамоновых.webm)
