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The Adventures of Oktyabrina

The Adventures of Oktyabrina
Directed by Grigori Kozintsev
Leonid Trauberg
Written by Grigori Kozintsev
Leonid Trauberg
Cinematography Fridrikh Verigo-Darovsky
Ivan Frolov
Production
company
Release date
9 December 1924
Running time
980 meters (35 minutes)
Country Soviet Union
Language Silent film
Russian subtitles

The Adventures of Oktyabrina (Russian: Похождения Октябрины, translit. Pokhozhdeniya Oktyabriny) is a 1924 Soviet/Russian silent film, an eccentric comedy, directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. This film is presumed lost, as it and many other early Russian films are believed to have been destroyed in a studio fire in 1925.

FEKS (ФЭКС) stands for «Фабрика эксцентрического актёра», "Factory of the Eccentric Actor", and The adventures of Oktyabrina was their first work.

Oktyabrina, a female Komsomol member and a building superintendent evicts to the building roof a "Nepman" for persistent non-payment of the rent. There Nepman unkorks a bottle of beer, from which a "Coolidge Curzon Poincare" emerges. The name is concocted to be an epitome of evil, made from the names of the anti-Soviet politicians of the time, routinely bashed in the Soviet press. Together they plot to rob Gosbank, but are deterred by Oktyabrina with the help of fellow Komsomol members and engineering marvels of the time.


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