Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.
Narrator
Viktor Khokhryakov
Archive footage
Leo Tolstoy
Film footage
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
Film footage
Aleksandra Goncharova
Film footage
Michael Chekhov
Film footage
Nikolai Vasilyev
Film footage
Pavel Knorr
Film footage
Andrey Gromov
Film footage
Ivan Mosjoukine
Film footage
Antoni Fertner
Archive footage
Olga Drevnitskaya
Archive footage
Ivan Poddubniy
Archive footage
Pyotr Nesterov
Archive footage
Georgiy Sedov
Film footage
Vera Kholodnaya
Film footage
Vladimir Maksimov
Film footage
Vera Karalli
Film footage
Vitold Polonsky
Film footage
Olga Gzovskaya
Film footage
Ivane Perestiani
Film footage
Ivan Khudoleyev
Film footage
Ossip Runitsch
Film footage
Nathalie Lissenko
Film footage
Vera Yureneva
Film footage
Lidiya Koreneva
Film footage
Lidiya Tridenskaya
Film footage
Feodor Chaliapin Sr.
Archive footage
Konstantin Stanislavski
Archive footage
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
Archive footage
Olga Knipper-Chekhova
Archive footage
Ivan Moskvin
Archive footage
Vladimir Lenin