The Decembrists (film)

The Decembrists (Декабристы) is a 1927 Soviet silent historical drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanovsky.

Plot
The film recreates the history of the movement of the Decembrists: an outbreak of peasant revolts, organization of nobility circles and the actual uprising; against the background of these events unfolds the romantic love story of the Decembrist Ivan Annenkov and French milliner Pauline Gueble.

Cast

 * Vladimir Maksimov as Emperor Alexander I
 * Yevgeni Boronikhin as Emperor Nicholas I
 * Varvara Annenkova as Polina Gebl-Annenkova
 * Boris Tamarin as Decembrist Ivan Alexandrovich Annenkov
 * Tamara Godlevskaya - Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Trubetskaya
 * Gennadiy Michurin as Count Sergei Trubetskoy
 * Sergei Shishko as Decembrist Kondraty Ryleyev
 * Valentin Lebedev as Count Obolensky
 * Ivan Khudoleyev as Yakoby, relative of the Annenkovys
 * Olga Spirova as Natalia Rileeva