Wings of a Serf
Wings of a Serf

Wings of a Serf

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1926
1h 13m
4.6(12 votes)
Drama
History

Overview

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with historical materialist commentary on the dialectical collision of scientific progress and patriarchal religious tyranny under Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It follows a self-taught inventor from the serf class Nikishka, whose efforts to build a flying machine incite accusations of witchcraft. Nikishka and his beloved Fima are persecuted by the feudal lord Kurlyatev, who took their village in a petty land squabble. They’re rescued when Kurlyatev’s lands are taken by the Tsar in his autocratic campaign against the feudal system. Ivan puts Nikishka to work in his linen mill, where the young serf is coveted by Tsarina Maria Temryukovna, who the Tsar’s been ignoring in favor of his cupbearer Feodor. A series of harrowing intrigues wind a bloody dance through bedchamber, feast hall, cathedral and dungeon.

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Sovkino

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Cast & Crew

14 members
Acting

Ivan Klyukvin

Nikishka

Ivan Klyukvin
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Леонид Леонидов

Tsar Ivan the Terrible

Леонид Леонидов
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Safiyat Askarova

Maria Temriukovna

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Vladimir Korsh

Tsarevich Ivan

Vladimir Korsh
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Николай Прозоровский

Feodor Basmanov

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Софья Гаррель

Fima

Софья Гаррель
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Александр Жуков

Vaska Gryaznov

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Лев Иванов

Guard (uncredited)

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Konstantin Efimov

Metropolitan

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Ivan Kachalov

Malyuta Skuratov

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Владимир Макаров

Lupatov

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V. Virskaya

Princess Kurlyateva

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V. Snezhinskaya

Unknown Role

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Ariadna Dzyubina

Khayat

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