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The Traitor

1926 · 30 min

A terse, sombre revolutionary drama that plays like a stark moral fable, tense and grimly inevitable.

Overview
An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolshevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • betrayal
  • politics
  • justice
  • loyalty
  • revenge
Places
  • sea
  • military
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Abram Room
Written by
Lev Nikulin, Viktor Shklovskiy
Starring
Nikolai Panov, P. Korizno, Maria Parshina, Yevgeniya Khovanskaya, Nikolai Radin, David Gutman, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Tamara Oganezova
Cinematography
Yevgeni Slavinsky
Runtime
30 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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