“Sniper” (another name is “The Art of Killing” ) is a 1931 feature war film directed by Semyon Tymoshenko . One of the first Soviet sound films.
| Sniper (The Art of Killing) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | war film |
| Producer | Semen Tymoshenko |
| Author script | Semen Tymoshenko |
| In the main cast | Peter Sobolevsky Boris Schlichting Peter Kirillov |
| Operator | Vladimir Danashevsky |
| Composer | Nikolai Malakhovsky |
| Film company | Lensoyuzkino |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Year | 1931 |
| IMDb | ID 0129386 |
Story
During the First World War , the protagonist of the film, a former metallurgical worker who arrived in France as part of the Russian expeditionary force, destroys the German sniper . From the documents of the murdered, he learns that his opponent in the past was a worker in a metallurgical plant. This leads him to the idea of the need for solidarity between the workers and the class distinction with their boss - the captain of the tsarist army.
After the war, the soldier returns to Soviet Russia , where he begins to work as a depot foreman at a railway border station. The station is attacked by bandits . Participating in repelling the attack, the brigade leader kills the leader of the attackers, in which he recognizes his former commander.
Cast
- Peter Sobolevsky - Russian soldier
- Boris Schlichting - captain
- Pyotr Kirillov - German sniper
- Vladimir Gardin - General
- Peter Pies
- Emil Gal - French officer
- Leonid Kmit - lazy Victor