Synopsis & Context
In a Western capitalist country where a fascist government attempts to suppress a socialist uprising, revolutionary leader Thomas Lamm is imprisoned by the government but he escapes to the Soviet Union. There, he meets the engineer Podobed who invents the 'death ray' – a device which explodes gunpowder and fuel mixtures at a distance.
Title Dossier
- Original Title
- Луч смерти
- Release
- March 16, 1925
- Screen Time
- 2h 05min
- Rating
- N/A
- Direction
- Lev Kuleshov
- Original Language
- Russian
- Country of Origin
- Russia
- Production Status
- Released
Personas & Cast
Porfiri Podobed
Podobed, engineer-inventor
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Pater Revo, catholic priest
Sergei Komarov
Tomas Lann
Vladimir Fogel
Fog, fascist
Alexandra Khokhlova
Sharpshooter / Sister Edith
Sergey Khokhlov
Freddie, Edith's son
Inna Stravinskaya
Stoker's daughter
A. Strabinskaya
Shura, Podobed's assistant
Andrei Gorchilin
Rapp, electric technician
Anna Chekulaeva
Rapp's wife
Pyotr Galadzhev
Ruller, factory owner / Circus director
Leonid Obolensky
Hard, leader of fascists
