Film
The Death Ray
SU- Age rating
- 0+
- Director
- Lev Kuleshov
- Year
- 1925
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.
Top cast
Porfiri Podobed
Podobed, engineer-inventor
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Pater Revo, catholic priest
Sergei Komarov
Tomas Lann
Vladimir Fogel
Fog, fascist
Alexandra Khokhlova
Sharpshooter / Sister Edith
Sergey Khokhlov
Freddie, Edith's son
Inna Stravinskaya
Stoker's daughter
A. Strabinskaya
Shura, Podobed's assistant
Andrei Gorchilin
Rapp, electric technician
Anna Chekulaeva
Rapp's wife
Pyotr Galadzhev
Ruller, factory owner / Circus director
Leonid Obolensky
Hard, leader of fascists
Viktor Pilschikov
Ruller's nephew
Mikhail Doller
Lev Kuleshov
Alexandr Gromov
Factory worker
Andrey Fayt
Agent
Sergey Slyotov
Directed by
Lev Kuleshov
Written by
Vsevolod Pudovkin
