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Taras Bulba (1924)

Taras Bulba poster
Directed by
Joseph N. Ermolieff
Genre
silent film, adventure film
Country
Germany
Runtime
2h 06m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Cossack leader leads his people in a violent struggle for freedom. The story follows a father and his two sons as they are drawn into conflict and betrayal.

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What happens

Taras Bulba is a 1924 German silent adventure film directed by Vladimir Strizhevsky and starring J.N. Douvan-Tarzow, Oscar Marion and Clementine Plessner. It is based on the short story Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol, and made at the Emelka Studios in Munich. It was one of several Russian-themed films that exiled producer Ermolieff made in Munich during the 1920s. The film's art direction was by Kurt Dürnhöfer and Willy Reiber. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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