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Penal Servitude

Penal Servitude

Genres

Drama

OverView

Early Soviet prison camp depiction set to the years of Revolution.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Runtime

72 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

28 November 1928

Country

Soviet Union

Cast

Andrei Zhilinsky

Andrei Zhilinsky

Ilya Berts, convicts foreman

Pavel Tamm

Pavel Tamm

Peshekhonov

Vladimir Taskin

Vladimir Taskin

Illarion Ostrobeylo, prison director

Mikhail Yanshin

Mikhail Yanshin

Telegraph operator

Vladimir Popov

Vladimir Popov

Chernyak, warden

Ivan Lavrov

Ivan Lavrov

(uncredited)

Boris Lifanov

Boris Lifanov

Katulski

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