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Volga Volga (1928)

Volga Volga poster
Original title
Wolga Wolga
Directed by
Victor Tourjansky
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Weimar Republic
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A German silent drama set in Russia. It follows characters living along the Volga River and their struggles.

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What happens

Volga Volga (German: Wolga Wolga) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Lillian Hall-Davis, and Boris de Fast. It was one of several Russian-themed films that exiled producer Joseph N. Ermolieff made in Munich during the 1920s. Interiors were shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin and on location in Wolin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew, Max Heilbronner and Erich Zander. It was distributed in the United States by Kinematrade Inc. in 1933 with dubbed English narration and dialogue, written by Alexander Bakshy, added. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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