66 minutes
5/29/1924
Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang of Batka Knysh to provoke the White Russians before the final blow.
Pyotr Leontyev
as Chekist Stalnoy / Knysh
Aleksandr Khachaturyants
as Red commander
Boris Shlikhting
as Petrov
Vladimir Kriger
as White commander
T. Kotelnikova
as Katya Govorkova
Ivan Arkadin
as Katya's father
Olga Narbekova
as Mother
F. Osipov
as Ugor
Antonin Pankryshev
as Kozyrev
Andrei Gorchilin
as Knysh's negotiator
Nikolai Okhlopkov
as Violinist
Alexandr Gromov
as Chairman
Nikolai Bravko
as Bandit
Vsevolod Massino
Galina Kravchenko
Lev Ivanov
as Party official (uncredited)
Andrey Fayt
as Officer
Yevgeni Chervyakov
Ekaterina Maloletnova