The Self-Seeker (1929)

ALL 11/11/1929 (uk) Comedy 78 Min
  • Release
    11/11/1929
  • Production
    VUFKU
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Шкурник
  • Original language
    uk
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

An opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army. After gathering left off goods on Andriyivskyi descent in Kyiv, he goes on a journey with a camel, which somehow had strayed to his house. In the midway he is stopped by the Red Army: the camel gets confiscated for the needs of revolution, and Apollon appears in the disposal of the Bolshevik commissar. Zealous and cunning, Apollon quickly takes lead of the local commissariat. But the ingrained thirst for a profit once again puts his life in danger.

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  2. Editor

  3. Producer



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Casts

  1. Dora Feller-Shpykovska

    Comissar

  2. Luka Lyashenko

    Head of Partisans

  3. Ivan Sadovskyi

    Apollon Z. Shmyguiev 'Shkurnyk'

  4. S. Vlasenko

    Chief of bootlegging check-point

  5. Dmitriy Kapka

    Colonel

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 5 , Crews : 6

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The Self-Seeker (1929) 78 Min

ALL 11/11/1929 (uk)
Comedy
  • Release 11/11/1929
  • Production
    VUFKU
  • Original title Шкурник
  • uk
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

An opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army. After gathering left off goods on Andriyivskyi descent in Kyiv, he goes on a journey with a camel, which somehow had strayed to his house. In the midway he is stopped by the Red Army: the camel gets confiscated for the needs of revolution, and Apollon appears in the disposal of the Bolshevik commissar. Zealous and cunning, Apollon quickly takes lead of the local commissariat. But the ingrained thirst for a profit once again puts his life in danger.

  1. Mykola Shpykovskyi

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer