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The Death Ray

(1925)

March 16, 1925• 2h 5m
52%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Lev Kuleshov

Director

Top Billed Cast

PP

Porfiri Podobed

Podobed, engineer-inventor

VP

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Pater Revo, catholic priest

SK

Sergei Komarov

Tomas Lann

VF

Vladimir Fogel

Fog, fascist

AK

Alexandra Khokhlova

Sharpshooter / Sister Edith

SK

Sergey Khokhlov

Freddie, Edith's son

IS

Inna Stravinskaya

Stoker's daughter

AS

A. Strabinskaya

Shura, Podobed's assistant

AG

Andrei Gorchilin

Rapp, electric technician

AC

Anna Chekulaeva

Rapp's wife