The Great Consoler

1h 32m

5

The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.

Cast

Alexandra Khokhlova

Konstantin Khokhlov

Ivan Novoseltsev

Jim Valentine - aka Ralph D. Spenser

Vasiliy Kovrigin

Detective Ben Price

Valentina Lopatina

Sadie / Annabel's sister

Weyland Rodd Sr.

Andrei Gorchilin

Galina Kravchenko

Pyotr Galadzhev

Banker Adams/ Reporter

Mikhail Doronin

Innkeeper / Prosecutor / Inspector

Daniil Vvedenskiy

Crew

Director, Writer, Production Design

Konstantin Kuznetsov

Director of Photography

Alexandra Khokhlova

Assistant Director

A. Kapustyanskiy

Assistant Camera

Leonid Obolensky

Sound Director, Sound

Nikolai Ozornov

Original Music Composer