The Club of the Big Deed
The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides that it's time for a game. But on whom to make a bet? He asks the cards. But he's not the only one who makes the choice.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This Russian historical crime drama follows a grifter around the time of the 1825 Decembrist revolt. He wins a ring with the initials "S.V.D." in a gamble, and constantly reinvents the meaning of the initials to get himself out of trouble. How long can he get away with it? Contemporary reviews and box office returns do not seem to have been recorded for the film, but modern viewers are enchanted by the setting and directing. The picture of this is messy and seems to have been recorded from a TV airing in the 1990's. The soundtrack was in even worse shape, though I took the opportunity to clean it to the point where it was usable. The download includes an English subtitle track.
Why this is free to watch
The Club of the Big Deed (1927) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Grigori Kozintsev
- Starring
- Pyotr Sobolevsky, Sergei Gerasimov, Oleg Zhakov, Yanina Zheymo, Andrei Kostrichkin, Sofiya Magarill, Nikolai Michurin, Konstantin Khokhlov
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