Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov

Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov
(Песнь про купца Калашникова)
Directed by Vasily Goncharov
Produced by Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
Written by Vasily Goncharov
Starring Pyotr Chardynin
Aleksandra Goncharova
Andrey Gromov
Ivan Potemkin
Music by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Cinematography Vladimir Siversen
Production
company
Khanzhonkov and Co
Release dates
  • 15 March 1909 (1909-03-15)
Running time
250 metres
Country Russian Empire
Language Silent film
Russian intertitles

Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov (Russian: Песнь про купца Калашникова, translit. Pesn pro kuptsa Kalashnikova) is a 1909 Russian silent film directed by Vasily Goncharov. The film is believed to be lost.

Plot

The film was loosely based on the eponymous poem by Mikhail Lermontov and consisted of four scenes: the feast at the court of Ivan the Terrible, the assault of Kalashnikov's wife by oprichnik Kiribeevich, the argument between Kalashnikov and Kiribeevich, and the fistfight between the protagonists.

Production

Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov was filmed in 1908 with actors from the troupe of Vvedensky Narodny Dom. Pyotr Chardynin, who later become one of the leading directors of the Russian Empire, debuted in the film as an actor.

Cast

References

External links

Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov at the Internet Movie Database

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