The Death Ray (1925)
March 16, 1925Release Date
The Death Ray (1925)
March 16, 1925Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Porfiri Podobed
Eng. Podobed
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Father Revo - Fascist Boss
Sergey Komarov
Tomas Lann
Sergei Komarov
Tomas Lann
Vladimir Fogel
Fog - a fascist
Lev Kuleshov
Director
Aleksandr Levitsky
Cinematographer
Alexandra Khokhlova
Edith's sister
Sergey Khokhlov
Freddy - Edith's son
Andrei Gorchilin
Eng. Rapp
S. Komarov
Assistant Director
Vasiliy Rakhals
Art Direction
Mikhail Doller
Alexandr Konstantinov
Alexandr Gromov
Fyodor Ivanov
Details.
Release DateMarch 16, 1925
Original NameЛуч смерти
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 5m
Genres
Wiki.
The Death Ray (Russian: Луч смерти, romanized: Luch smerti) is a 1925 Soviet science fiction film directed by Lev Kuleshov. The first and last reels of the film have been lost. This film ran at 2 hours, 5 minutes, making this one of the earliest full length science fiction films.
Despite the fact that many sources claim the inspiration for the film to be the novel The Garin Death Ray by Aleksei Tolstoy, this is not the case. It is impossible, since the book was published two years after the film, in 1927. Furthermore, the film has many similarities with a book by Valentin Kataev, called Lord of Iron, published in 1924. Moreover, the theme of death rays was very popular at the time because of the 1923 claim of British inventor Harry Grindell Matthews to have created a "death ray".