Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov (film)
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Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov is a 1909 Russian silent film directed by Vasily Goncharov
. The film is believed to be lost.
poem by Mikhail Lermontov
and consisted of four scenes: the feast at the court of Ivan the Terrible, the assault of Kalashnikov's wife by oprichnik
Kiribeevich, the argument between Kalashnikov and Kiribeevich, and the fistfight
between the protagonists.
, who later become one of the leading directors of the Russian Empire, debuted in the film as an actor.
Vasily Goncharov
Vasily Mikhailovich Goncharov was a Russian film director and screenwriter, one of the pioneers of the film industry in the Russian Empire, who directed the first Russian feature film Defence of Sevastopol.-Filmography:...
. The film is believed to be lost.
Plot
The film was loosely based on the eponymousThe Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov
A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevish, the Young Oprichnik, and the Valorous Merchant Kalashnikov, often abbreviated as The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov, is a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written in 1837 and first published in 1838....
poem by Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest...
and consisted of four scenes: the feast at the court of Ivan the Terrible, the assault of Kalashnikov's wife by oprichnik
Oprichnik
An oprichnik was a member of an organization established by Tsar Ivan the Terrible to govern the division of Russia known as the Oprichnina ....
Kiribeevich, the argument between Kalashnikov and Kiribeevich, and the fistfight
Fistfight
Russian fist fighting is the traditional bare-knuckle boxing of Russia.-History:The earliest accounts concerning the sport date to the 13th century...
between the protagonists.
Production
Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov was filmed in 1908 with actors from the troupe of Vvedensky Narodny Dom. Pyotr ChardyninPyotr Chardynin
Pyotr Ivanovich Chardynin was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Pyotr Chardynin, one of the pioneers of the film industry in the Russian Empire, directed over a hundred silent films during his career.-Biography:...
, who later become one of the leading directors of the Russian Empire, debuted in the film as an actor.
Cast
- Pyotr ChardyninPyotr ChardyninPyotr Ivanovich Chardynin was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Pyotr Chardynin, one of the pioneers of the film industry in the Russian Empire, directed over a hundred silent films during his career.-Biography:...
as Merchant Kalashnikov - Aleksandra Goncharova as Kalashnikov's wife
- Andrey Gromov as Oprichnik Kiribeevich
- Ivan Potemkin as Ivan the Terrible