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Rider Named Death Vsadnik Po Imeni Smert

Rider Named Death Vsadnik Po Imeni Smert. Kelly Cronin Marci DeGrace. Technical Information. Director Karen Shakhnazarov Main producer Karen Shakhnazarov Executive Producer Galina Shadur Screenplay Aleksandr Borodianksii, with Karen Shakhnazarov Photography Vladimir Klimov

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Rider Named Death Vsadnik Po Imeni Smert

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  1. Rider Named DeathVsadnik Po Imeni Smert Kelly Cronin Marci DeGrace

  2. Technical Information Director Karen Shakhnazarov Main producer Karen Shakhnazarov Executive Producer Galina Shadur Screenplay Aleksandr Borodianksii, with Karen Shakhnazarov Photography Vladimir Klimov Production Design Liudmila Kusakova Music Anatolii Kroll

  3. Actors George Andrei Panin Erna Kseniia Rappoport Vanya Artem Semakin Fyodor Rostislav Bershauer Elena Anastasiia Makeeva Heinrich Aleksei Kazakov Valentin Kuz´mich Dmitrii Diuzhev Elena's husband Valerii Storozhik Gashkes Dmitrii Gusev Grand Prince Vasilii Zotov Rogoznikova Anna Gorshkova

  4. Summary The feature tells the story of George, a leader of the terrorist faction of Russia's Socialist-Revolutionary Party and an active participant in the killing of Russian governors and ministers in pre-Soviet Russia.

  5. Based on Boris Savinkov's novel Kon´ blednyi • Movie based on novel Pale Horse • Book by anti-tsarist agitator and terrorist Boris Savinkov • Published his works under the pseudonym V. Ropshin

  6. Boris Savinkov • "Russian bin Laden” • Pale Horse is auto-biographical • Known as an intellectual killer • Admirer of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche • Mastermind of assassination of several governors, interior ministers, and later of anti-Soviet revolts

  7. Turn-of-the-Century Russia 1894 Nicholas II becomes last Romanov Tsar of Russia 1903 Bolshevik Party established in Russia 1904 Russo-Japanese War 1905 Trans-Siberian Railway completed 1905 "Bloody Sunday" massacre of protestors in St Petersburg

  8. Socialist Revolutionary Party • Represented effort to unleash revolutionary upheaval of the peasantry • Only intelligent have the understanding, knowledge, and moral competence to liberate people • Liberation through terror • Early summer of 1906 • peasants failed to protest the dissolution of the First Duma

  9. Themes to Consider • Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism • Isolation • Loss of humanity • Love • Religion • Revolution hierarchy vs. Government

  10. Important Events and Symbols • Cabaret Scene and Restaurant • Use of Masks, Makeup • Belief in God • Speech about Crucifixion and Peter • Characterization • George • Appearance • Relationships with Others • Value for his life • Assasination Attempts • Effects on common people

  11. Authenticity • Scenery • Woods • Streets • Gruesome Scenes • Decapitation • Assassinations • Black and White footage

  12. Connections to Today’s Society United States Russia Other Countries

  13. Questions?

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