Watch The White Eagle (1928) Official Trailer
5.3 / 10 IMDb October 9, 1928 1h 7m
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.
Director
Runtime
1h 7m
Release Date
October 9, 1928
Genre
Drama, History
Status
Released
Languages
No Language
Country
Soviet Union
Cast
Vasiliy Kachalov
as Governor
Anna Sten
as Governess
Vsevolod Meyerhold
as State official
Ivan Chuvelyov
as Provocator
Andrey Petrovsky
as Police general
Pyotr Repnin
as Archbishop
Yury Vasilchikov
as Official
Mikhail Zharov
as Official
No photo
Yelena Volkonskaya
as Governor's wife
Alexandr Gromov
as Revolutionary
Aleksandr Chistyakov
as State prisoner
Production Companies
Mezhrabpomfilm
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