Michel Strogoff | |
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Directed by | Viktor Tourjansky |
Produced by |
Noë Bloch Gregor Rabinovitch |
Written by |
Jules Verne (novel) Boris de Fast Viktor Tourjansky Ivan Mozzhukhin |
Starring |
Ivan Mozzhukhin Nathalie Kovanko Acho Chakatouny |
Music by | Werner R. Heymann |
Cinematography |
Fédote Bourgasoff Léonce-Henri Burel Nikolai Toporkoff |
Production
company |
Société Générale des Cinématographes Éclipse
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Distributed by | Ciné-Location-Eclipse |
Release date
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30 June 1926 |
Country | France |
Language | Silent French intertitles |
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.
A number of filmmakers involved were exiles from the Russian Revolution of 1917. The film's art direction was by Eduardo Gosch, César Lacca, Alexandre Lochakoff, Vladimir Meingard and Pierre Schild who recreated the atmosphere of mid-nineteenth century Tsarist Russia.