The Great Citizen

The Great Citizen
(Великий гражданин)
Directed byFridrikh Ermler
Written byMikhail Bleiman
Manuel Bolshintsov
Fridrikh Ermler
StarringNikolay Bogolyubov
Edited byYe. Makhankova
Music byDmitri Shostakovich
Production
company
Release dates
  • 13 February 1938 (1938-02-13)
  • 27 November 1939 (1939-11-27)
Running time
252 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Great Citizen (Russian: Великий гражданин, romanized: Velikiy grazhdanin) is a 1938 Soviet biopic film directed by Fridrikh Ermler.

A fictionalized biography of Sergei Kirov (the character's name is Shakhov), the film was intended as ideological support for the Great Purges; it depicts life in USSR during the 1920s and 1930s.

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