Movie: The Devil's Wheel

Top 8 Billed Cast

Lyudmila Semyonova
Lyudmila Semyonova

Valya

Pyotr Sobolevsky
Пётр Соболевский

Vanya Shorin

Emil Gal
Emil Gal

Vaudeville Performer

Sergei Gerasimov
Sergei Gerasimov

Man The Question

Andrei Kostrichkin
Andrei Kostrichkin

Drummer

Yanina Zheymo
Янина Жеймо

Antonio Tserep
Antonio Tserep

Tavern Owner

N. Foregger
N. Foregger

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    Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.

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    1926-03-15

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    5.3

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