| KashtankaAlso known as [Chestnut]
 (1926) Soviet Union
 B&W : Feature film
 Directed by Ivan Pravov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya
 Cast: Nikolai Panov [Clown George], Yevgeniya Khovanskaya [the boarding house mistress], Naum Rogozhin [Mazamet, the organ grinder], Antonin Pankryshev [Luka], Leonid Yurenev [‘Gvozd’ (Nail), a tramp], Yuri Zimin [Fedya], Elena Tyapkina [Nastasia], Gulya Korolyova [the girl at the pipe market], B. Sneguiriev [the Agafon coachman], Nikolay Trofimov [a homeless boy], Mikhail Zharov, Jackie [she-dog] Sovkino production; distributed by [?] Sovkino? / Scenario by Yuri Bolotov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya, from a short story by Anton Chekhov. Production design by Dmitri Kolupayev. Assistant director, N. Zubova. Cinematography by Grigori Giber. / Released 3 December 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Tyapkina’s film debut. Drama. Survival status: Print exists. Current rights holder: (unknown) Listing updated: 13 June 2025. References: Website-IMDb. Home video: DVD. |