Michel Strogoff | |
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Directed by | Viktor Tourjansky |
Written by | Boris de Fast Viktor Tourjansky Ivan Mozzhukhin |
Based on | Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne |
Produced by | Noë Bloch Gregor Rabinovitch |
Starring | Ivan Mozzhukhin Nathalie Kovanko Acho Chakatouny |
Cinematography | Fédote Bourgasoff Léonce-Henri Burel Nikolai Toporkoff |
Music by | Werner R. Heymann |
Production company | Société Générale des Cinématographes Éclipse |
Distributed by | Ciné-Location-Eclipse |
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Running time | 2 hr. 48 min. |
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.[1] It is an adaptation of Jules Verne's 1876 novel Michael Strogoff. In 1961 Tourjanski directed a sequel titled Le Triomphe de Michel Strogoff.[2]
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 the mid-nineteenth century Russian Empire.