The Devil's Wheel
Overview
Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.
Release date
15/03/1926
Votes
9
Popularity
0.7
Pyotr Sobolevsky
Vanya Shorin, Red fleet sailor
Lyudmila Semyonova
Valya
Sergei Gerasimov
The Question Man
Emil Gal
Koko, vaudeville performer
Antonio Tserep
Tavern Owner
Nikolay Gorodnichev
House manager
V. Lande
Cafe dancer
Sergei Martinson
Orchestra conductor
Yevgeniy Kumeyko
Hooligan
I. Berezin
Hooligan
Yanina Zheymo
Hooligan girl
Tatyana Ventsel
Viktor Plotnikov
Salvation army member
Arnold Arnold
Editor
Aleksandr Kostomolotsky
Aleksei Kapler
Andrei Kostrichkin
Drummer
Mikhail Shifman
(uncredited)
Viktor Chaynikov
Sailor (uncredited)
Nikolay Foregger
(uncredited)
Original Soundtrack
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The Vow
Man with a Movie Camera
Women of Today
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
The House on Trubnaya
Kino Eye
The End of St. Petersburg
Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole
The Club of the Big Deed
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation
Stormforce
Branded to Kill
The Raven
Planet of the Vampires
Golgo 13: The Professional
There Goes Tomoe!
At the Villa Rose