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The Devil's Wheel
5.3
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0h 40m
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1926
Overview
Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.
Cast
![Lyudmila Semyonova pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FbXTHH165KxjyRwOXud4hkhDnCHF.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Lyudmila Semyonova
Valya
![Pyotr Sobolevsky pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FurytNZueqCXcO3pj65hxyPUFJAv.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Pyotr Sobolevsky
Vanya Shorin
![Emil Gal pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FngqGd7TSRYKDYWC150jrnaGSmoE.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Emil Gal
Vaudeville Performer
![Sergei Gerasimov pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FgC2I7YQPAKBwNkHVWWIF4nQOH75.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Sergei Gerasimov
Man The Question
![Andrei Kostrichkin pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FjlIHryx7QnUeuKHuonR8wRcnJuj.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Andrei Kostrichkin
Drummer
![Yanina Zheymo pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2Ft9jsZSVbqsmlGWX8dhSpC5iuo8X.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Yanina Zheymo
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Antonio Tserep
Tavern Owner
![N. Foregger pic](/_next/image?url=%2F_next%2Fstatic%2Fmedia%2FPortraitPlaceholder.a8aff590.png&w=320&q=75)
N. Foregger
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