
1925 · Lev Kuleshov · 125 min
In a Western capitalist country where a fascist government attempts to suppress a socialist uprising, revolutionary leader Thomas Lamm is imprisoned by the government but he escapes to the Soviet Union. There, he meets the engineer Podobed who invents the 'death ray' – a device which explodes gunpowder and fuel mixtures at a distance.
Porfiri PodobedPodobed, engineer-inventor
Vsevolod PudovkinPater Revo, catholic priest
Sergei KomarovTomas Lann
Vladimir FogelFog, fascist
Alexandra KhokhlovaSharpshooter / Sister EdithSergey KhokhlovFreddie, Edith's sonInna StravinskayaStoker's daughterA. StrabinskayaShura, Podobed's assistantAndrei GorchilinRapp, electric technicianAnna ChekulaevaRapp's wife
Pyotr GaladzhevRuller, factory owner / Circus director
Leonid ObolenskyHard, leader of fascistsViktor PilschikovRuller's nephew
Mikhail Doller
Lev Kuleshov