The Great Citizen

The Great Citizen
(Великий гражданин)
Directed by Fridrikh Ermler
Written by Mikhail Bleiman
Manuel Bolshintsov
Fridrikh Ermler
Starring Nikolay Bogolyubov
Music by Dmitri Shostakovich
Edited by Ye. Makhankova
Production
company
Release dates
  • 13 February 1938 (1938-02-13)
  • 27 November 1939 (1939-11-27)
Running time
252 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

The Great Citizen (Russian: Великий гражданин, translit. Velikiy grazhdanin is a 1938 Soviet biopic film directed by Fridrikh Ermler. It was the first Soviet made for TV movie.

A fictionalized biography of Sergei Kirov (the character's name is Shakhov), the film was intended as ideological support for the Great Purges; it depicts life in USSR during the 1920s and 1930s.

Cast

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