May 29, 1924
66 min
Full-HD

Banda batki Knysha (1924)

Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang of Batka Knysh to provoke the White Russians before the final blow.

Category

Crime

Country

Soviet Union

Companies

Goskino USSR

Pyotr Leontyev

Chekist Stalnoy / Knysh

Aleksandr Khachaturyants

Red commander

Boris Shlikhting

Petrov

Vladimir Kriger

White commander

T. Kotelnikova

Katya Govorkova

Ivan Arkadin

Katya's father

Olga Narbekova

Mother

F. Osipov

Ugor

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