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Michel Strogoff (1926)

Michel Strogoff poster
Directed by
Victor Tourjansky
Genre
silent film, adventure film
Country
France
Runtime
2h 48m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A courier must cross enemy territory to deliver a vital message to the tsar. The film follows his perilous journey through wild landscapes and past treacherous foes.

old-fashionedstatelyepicromanticadventuroussweepingearnestmelodramatic

What happens

Michel Strogoff is a 1926 French silent historical adventure film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Kovanko, and Acho Chakatouny. It is an adaptation of Jules Verne's 1876 novel Michael Strogoff. In 1961 Tourjanski directed a sequel titled Le Triomphe de Michel Strogoff. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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