Sickle and Hammer (film) explained

Sickle and Hammer
Director:	Vladimir Gardin
Cinematography:	Eduard Tisse
Studio:	VFKO
Country:	Russia

Sickle and Hammer (Russian: Серп и молот|Serp i molot) is a 1921 Russian silent drama film directed by Vladimir Gardin.^[1] It is an agit-film that is longer than the usual at six reels because the norm is two reels only or twenty minutes.^[2] The story is about a peasant worker who went to the city to become a factory worker, then he eventually fights in the World War and after this, he returns to his own village as a Red Army commander.^[3]

Cast

• Aleksandr Gromov as Ivan Gorbov
• Anatoli Gorchilin as Pyotr
• N. Zubova as Agasha
• Vsevolod Pudovkin as Andrey
• Sergey Komarov
• Ye. Bedunkevich
  • N. Belyakov Anna Chekulaeva
• A. Golovanov
• Y. Kaverina
  • • M. Kudelko Feofan Shipulinsky N. Vishnyak

References

1. Sargeant p.1
2. Book: Youngblood, Denise J.. Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935. 1991. University of Texas Press. 978-0-292-77645-6. en.
3. Web site: SERP I MOLOT (1921). https://web.archive.org/web/20191216030950/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b76993ef7. dead. 16 December 2019. BFI. en. 16 December 2019.

Bibliography

• Sargeant, Amy. Vsevolod Pudovkin: Classic Films of the Soviet Avant-garde. I.B.Tauris, 2001.