The Great Citizen

1938 film

13 February 1938 (1938-02-13)
27 November 1939 (1939-11-27)

Running time

252 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

The Great Citizen (Russian: Великий гражданин, romanized: Velikiy grazhdanin) is a 1938 Soviet biopic film directed by Fridrikh Ermler.^[1]

A fictionalized biography of Sergei Kirov (the character's name is Shakhov), the film was intended as ideological support for the Great Purges; it depicts life in USSR during the 1920s and 1930s.

Stalin made direct interventions in Mikhail Bleiman and Manuel Bolshintsov's screenplay. During the making of The Great Citizen four people associated with it were arrested. In the press Ermler and his screenwriters were obliged to condemn the "wrecker" leadership of Lenfilm, most importantly Piotrovski.^[2]

Cast

Nikolay Bogolyubov - Shakhov - the great citizen
Ivan Bersenev - Kartashov - the conspirator
Oleg Zhakov - Borovsky - the accomplice
Zoya Fyodorova - Nadya
Boris Poslavsky - Sizov
Aleksandr Zrazhevsky - Dubok
Boris Chirkov - Maksim, the investigator
Pyotr Kirillov - Briantsev - the assassin
Yefim Altus - Katz - Shakhov's helper
Yelena Yegorova
Yevgeni Pankov
Yevgeni Nemchenko - Dronov
Georgi Semyonov - Kolesnikov
V. Kiselyov - Gladkikh
A. Polibin - Solovyev
Sergei Kurilov
N. Raiskaya-Dore - Shakhov's mother
Natalya Rashevskaya - Olga
K. Ryabinkin - Kryuchkov

References

^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 267–268. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
^ Birgit Beumers. A Companion to Russian Cinema. Wiley. ISBN 1118424700.

External links

The Great Citizen at IMDb

Dmitri Shostakovich

List of compositions

Operas and operettas

The Nose
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District/Katerina Izmailova
The Big Lightning (unfinished)
Orango (unfinished)
The Twelve Chairs (unfinished)
Katyusha Maslova (unfinished)
The Gamblers (unfinished)
Moscow, Cheryomushki

Ballets

The Golden Age
The Bolt
The Limpid Stream

Symphonies

No. 1 in F minor
No. 2 in B major (To October)
No. 3 in E♭ major (The First of May)
No. 4 in C minor
No. 5 in D minor
No. 6 in B minor
No. 7 in C major (Leningrad)
- Leningrad première
- American premieres
No. 8 in C minor
No. 9 in E♭ major
No. 10 in E minor
No. 11 in G minor (The Year 1905)
No. 12 in D minor (The Year 1917)
No. 13 in B♭ minor (Babi Yar)
No. 14 in G minor
No. 15 in A major

Concertos

Piano	No. 1 in C minor No. 2 in F major
Violin	No. 1 in A minor No. 2 in C♯ minor
Cello	No. 1 in E♭ major No. 2 in G major

Orchestral works

Tahiti Trot
Suite from The Golden Age
Suite from The Bolt
Suite from The Limpid Stream
Five Fragments
Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1
Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (orch. McBurney)
Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1 (arr. Atovmyan)
Festive Overture
Suite from Encounter at the Elbe
Suite from The Gadfly (arr. Atovmyan)
Novorossiisk Chimes, the Flame of Eternal Glory
October
"Intervision"

Concert/brass band

"March of the Soviet Militia"

Film music

The New Babylon
Alone
Golden Mountains
Counterplan
The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda
The Youth of Maxim
Girl Friends
The Return of Maxim
The Vyborg Side
Friends
The Great Citizen
Zoya
Simple People
The Young Guard
Pirogov
Michurin
Meeting on the Elbe
The Fall of Berlin
Belinsky
The Unforgettable Year 1919
The Gadfly
Five Days, Five Nights
Sofiya Perovskaya
Hamlet
King Lear
Gogoliad (unfinished)

Vocal music

Chamber music

String quartets	No. 1 in C major No. 2 in A major No. 3 in F major No. 4 in D major No. 5 in B♭ major No. 6 in G major No. 7 in F♯ minor No. 8 in C minor No. 9 in E♭ major No. 10 in A♭ major No. 11 in F minor No. 12 in D♭ major No. 13 in B♭ minor No. 14 in F♯ major No. 15 in E♭ minor
Other	Cello Sonata in D minor Piano Quintet in G minor Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Quartet Movement in E♭ major (c. 1960s) Violin Sonata Viola Sonata