The White Eagle (1928)
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.
- Released
- 1928-10-09
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Runtime
- 67 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Yakov Protazanov
- TMDB rating
- 5.3/10 from 9 votes
Cast
- Vasiliy Kachalov as Governor
- Anna Sten as Governess
- Vsevolod Meyerhold as State official
- Ivan Chuvelyov as Provocator
- Andrey Petrovsky as Police general
- Pyotr Repnin as Archbishop
- Yury Vasilchikov as Official
- Mikhail Zharov as Official
- Yelena Volkonskaya as Governor's wife
- Alexandr Gromov as Revolutionary
- Aleksandr Chistyakov as State prisoner
- Nikolay Muratov as (uncredited)