The Self-Seeker (1929)
1h 18m
Running Time
November 11, 1929Release Date
The Self-Seeker (1929)
1h 18m
Running Time
November 11, 1929Release Date
Plot.
An opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army. After gathering left off goods on Andriyivskyi descent in Kyiv, he goes on a journey with a camel, which somehow had strayed to his house. In the midway he is stopped by the Red Army: the camel gets confiscated for the needs of revolution, and Apollon appears in the disposal of the Bolshevik commissar. Zealous and cunning, Apollon quickly takes lead of the local commissariat. But the ingrained thirst for a profit once again puts his life in danger.
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Cast & Crew.
Dora Feller-Shpykovska
Commissar
Dmytro Kapka
Colonel
S. Vlasenko
Chief of bootlegging check-point
Luka Lyashenko
Head of Partisans
Dmytro Kapka
Colonel
Ivan Sadovskyi
Apollon Z. Shmyguev 'Shkurnik'
Mykola Shpykovskyi
Director
Mykola Shpykovsky
Director
Solomon Zarytskyi
Production Design
Boris Rozenzvejg
Writer
Vadym Ohrymenko
Writer
Oleksiy Pankratyev
Cinematographer
Media.
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Wiki.
The Self Seeker (Russian: Шкурник, romanized: Shkurnyk) is a 1929 Soviet film directed by Nikolai Shpikovsky.