My Son (1928 film)

My Son
Directed byYevgeni Chervyakov [ru]
Written by
Starring
CinematographySvyatoslav Belyayev
Production
company
Release date
  • 1928 (1928)
CountrySoviet Union
LanguagesSilent
Russian intertitles

My Son (Russian: Мой сын, romanizedMoy syn) is a 1928 Soviet silent drama film directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov [ru] and starring Gennadiy Michurin, Anna Sten and Pyotr Berezov.[1][2]

Plot

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A wife admits to her husband that the child to whom she gave birth is not from him. After this the life of the protagonist changes dramatically.[3]

Interesting facts

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The film was lost during the Great Patriotic War.

In 2008, five 16mm film reels of a film without the original titles, labeled as "El Hijo del otro" ("The son of another") were found in Argentina. Copies of the film were kept in the archive of the Museum of Cinema in Buenos Aires. Some film critics regard this event as "the biggest archival discovery in the history of Russian cinema in the last half century," and liken it to the "release of the second part of Ivan the Terrible.[4]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Rollberg p.666
  2. ^ Bryher (1922). Film Problems Of Soviet Russia. Riant Chateau TERRITET Switzerland. pp. 92–94.
  3. ^ Kenneth Macpherson (November 1928). "Six Russian Films (Concluded) The Son (Das Kind des Andern)". Close Up. Pool Group. pp. 46–49.
  4. ^ Pyotr Bagrov (July 2010). "О Евгении Червякове. Режиссер экзистенциального кино" [About Yevgeni Chervyakov. Director of existential cinema] (in Russian). Isskustvo Kino. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2011.

Bibliography

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  • Rollberg, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
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