The Palace and the Fortress

1924 DramaHistory 58 minutes Directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky

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About The Palace and the Fortress

Mikhail Beideman, a revolutionary democrat, is taken from the life of the palaces and locked in the Peter and Paul Fortress. He spends more than twenty years in the western Alekseyevsky ravelin.

Cast & crew

More about The Palace and the Fortress

Aleksandr Ivanovsky directed. Olga Forsh, whose novel supplied the story, and Pavel Shchegolev are credited on the script. Wikidata also attaches the later Lenfilm name to the production. The film runs 58 minutes.

Themes

  • From the palace to the fortress
  • Twenty years in the ravelin
  • A revolutionary democrat as the prisoner
  • Mikhail Beideman
  • Peter and Paul Fortress
  • Alekseyevsky ravelin
  • Olga Forsh
  • Aleksandr Ivanovsky
  • silent film

Music

Silent.

Notes

  • Yevgeni Boronikhin, Leonid Dobrovolsky, Yelena Khmelevskaya, Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, Viktor Chernorudniy, and Sergei Shishko are billed. Roles are not pinned to them in the short English notices.
  • The Russian title is Дворец и крепость. A Commons file is labeled 1923.
  • The English plot stops at the imprisonment. It does not give the scenes inside the ravelin.

Scenes

  • Beideman is moved from aristocratic rooms into the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Influenced by

  • Olga Forsh's novel

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (1923. Дворец и крепость.webm)

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