Red Devils (film)

Red Devils
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Directed by	Ivan Perestiani Pavel Blyakhin
Written by	Ivan Perestiani Pavel Blyakhin
Starring	Pavel Yesikovsky Sofia Josephey Kador Ben-Salim Vladimir Kucherenko
Music by	I. Gokieli
Cinematography	Aleksander Digmelov
Production company	Cinema section of People's Commissariat of Georgia Odessa Film Studio
Release dates	1923 (1923)
Running time	139 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Red Devils (Russian: Красные дьяволята) is a 1923 Soviet adventure film directed by Ivan Perestiani based on the eponymous story by Pavel Blyakhin. It has become one of the most famous and oft-quoted works of the Soviet adventure film.

Plot

The film is about the adventures of three young agents, fighters of the 1st Cavalry Army, set against the background of the Russian Civil War and the struggle with the Makhnovist forces. At the beginning Nestor Makhno and his troops attack the village, committing various crimes, including murdering peasants, robbing huts, stealing livestock, killing communists. In the attack, a man's father is captured, tortured and killed under Makhno's orders. Afterwards, the three of them organize a detachment against Makhno.

Cast

• Pavel Yesikovsky - Misha
• Sofia Josephey - Dunyasha, Misha's sister
• Kador Ben-Salim - Tom Jackson
• Vladimir Kucherenko (credited as Vladimir Sutyrin) - Makhno
• Konstantin Davidovsky - Budyonny
• G. Lane - Petrov, worker, father of Misha and Dunyashi
• Nikolay Nirov - Garbuzenko
• Svetlana Lux - Oksana
• Jan Burinsky - captain
• Zakariy Berishvili - bandit
• Georgiy Makarov - bandit
• Patwakan Barkhudaryan - bandit

Sequels

• The Savur-Mohyla (1926)
• The Crime of Shirvanskaya (1926)
• The Punishment of Shirvanskaya (1926)
• Ilan-dili (1926)

See also

• Red Devils (story)

External links

• Krasnye dyavolyata (1923) at IMDb