The Death Ray (1925)
In a Western capitalist country where a fascist government attempts to suppress a socialist uprising, revolutionary leader Thomas Lamm is imprisoned by the government but he escapes to the Soviet Union. There, he meets the engineer Podobed who invents the 'death ray' – a device which explodes gunpowder and fuel mixtures at a distance.
- Released
- 1925-03-16
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Drama
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Lev Kuleshov
- TMDB rating
- 5.2/10 from 12 votes
Cast
- Porfiri Podobed as Podobed, engineer-inventor
- Vsevolod Pudovkin as Pater Revo, catholic priest
- Sergei Komarov as Tomas Lann
- Vladimir Fogel as Fog, fascist
- Alexandra Khokhlova as Sharpshooter / Sister Edith
- Sergey Khokhlov as Freddie, Edith's son
- Inna Stravinskaya as Stoker's daughter
- A. Strabinskaya as Shura, Podobed's assistant
- Andrei Gorchilin as Rapp, electric technician
- Anna Chekulaeva as Rapp's wife
- Pyotr Galadzhev as Ruller, factory owner / Circus director
- Leonid Obolensky as Hard, leader of fascists