Father Sergius (1918)
May 14, 1918Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Ivan Mosjoukine
Prince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius
Olga Kondorova
Countess Korotkova
Vera Dzheneyeva
Maria, countess's daughter
Vladimir Gajdarov
Tsar Nikolai I
Nikolai Panov
Kasatsky's father
Nathalie Lissenko
Widow of the merchant Makovkin
Iona Talanov
Merchant
Vera Orlova
Merchant's daughter
Pyotr Baksheyev
Young priest
Polikarp Pavlov
Monastery's gatekeeper
Nicolas Rimsky
Bishop
Yakov Protazanov
Director
Leo Tolstoy
Novel
Alexandre Volkoff
Writer / Co-Director
Yevgeniy Bukke
Original Music Composer
Fédote Bourgasoff
Director of Photography
Nikolas Roudakoff
Director of Photography
Nikolay Vorobyev
Costume Design
Stanislaw Sebel
Cinematographer
Joseph N. Ermolieff
Production Manager
Vladimir Ballyuzek
Production Design
Alexandre Lochakoff
Production Design
Aleksandra Orlova
Still Photographer
Andrei Brei
Assistant Director
Aleksandr Ivanovsky
Assistant Director
Aleksey Shargalin
Makeup & Hair
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 14, 1918
Original NameОтец Сергий
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 52m
Genres
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Wiki.
Father Sergius (Russian: Отец Сергий, translit. Otets Sergiy) is a 1918 Soviet Russian silent film directed by Yakov Protazanov and Alexandre Volkoff. It is based on the 1911 posthumously published story of the same name by Leo Tolstoy.
This was the first film version of the story, as the depiction of priests was not permitted in the film industry of the Russian Empire until after the October Revolution in 1917. Ivan Mosjoukine plays the title role.
Father Sergius was screened in the United Kingdom in 1920 and 1927.
The film is set during the reign of Russian Tsar Nicholas I, where Prince Kasatsky discovers that his fiancée has an affair with the Tsar. He decides to break his engagement and retires to a convent where he tries to reach holiness.