The Great Consoler

(1933)

★ 5.2 IMDb · 14 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1933

Runtime: 95 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Лев Кулешов

Cast: Александра Хохлова, Константин Хохлов, Иван Новосельцев, O. Rayevskaya, Василий Ковригин, Андрей Файт, Валентина Лопатина, Вейланд Родд, Андрей Горчилин, Галина Кравченко

Plot

The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.