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Wings of a Serf (1926)

Overview

This SovKino production was a major early experiment in Soviet historical film about the oprichnina period of Muscovite history, combining the costumed drama and Gothic thrills of the genre with historical materialist commentary on the dialectical collision of scientific progress and patriarchal religious tyranny under Tsar Ivan the Terrible. It follows a self-taught inventor from the serf class Nikishka, whose efforts to build a flying machine incite accusations of witchcraft. Nikishka and his beloved Fima are persecuted by the feudal lord Kurlyatev, who took their village in a petty land squabble. They’re rescued when Kurlyatev’s lands are taken by the Tsar in his autocratic campaign against the feudal system. Ivan puts Nikishka to work in his linen mill, where the young serf is coveted by Tsarina Maria Temryukovna, who the Tsar’s been ignoring in favor of his cupbearer Feodor. A series of harrowing intrigues wind a bloody dance through bedchamber, feast hall, cathedral and dungeon.
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Yuri Tarich profile
Yuri Tarich

Director

Cast

Ivan Klyukvin profile
Ivan Klyukvin

Nikishka

Leonid Leonidov profile
Leonid Leonidov

Tsar Ivan the Terrible

Safiyat Askarova profile
Safiyat Askarova

Maria Temriukovna

Vladimir Korsh profile
Vladimir Korsh

Tsarevich Ivan

Nikolai Prozorovsky profile
Nikolai Prozorovsky

Feodor Basmanov

Sofya Garrel profile
Sofya Garrel

Fima

Aleksandr Zhukov profile
Aleksandr Zhukov

Vaska Gryaznov

Lev Ivanov profile
Lev Ivanov

Guard (uncredited)

Konstantin Efimov profile
Konstantin Efimov

Metropolitan

Ivan Klyukvin profile
Ivan Klyukvin

Nikishka

Leonid Leonidov profile
Leonid Leonidov

Tsar Ivan the Terrible

Safiyat Askarova profile
Safiyat Askarova

Maria Temriukovna

Vladimir Korsh profile
Vladimir Korsh

Tsarevich Ivan

Nikolai Prozorovsky profile
Nikolai Prozorovsky

Feodor Basmanov

Sofya Garrel profile
Sofya Garrel

Fima

Aleksandr Zhukov profile
Aleksandr Zhukov

Vaska Gryaznov

Lev Ivanov profile
Lev Ivanov

Guard (uncredited)

Konstantin Efimov profile
Konstantin Efimov

Metropolitan

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Release Date

November 16, 1926

Original Language

No Language

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

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