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  • The Self-Seeker (1929)
  • 75 min | Comedy
The Self-Seeker (1929)
75 min | Comedy
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 ...See moreAn 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. Written by Anonymous See less
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Director
Mykola Shpykovskyi (as Nikolai Shpikovsky)
Writers
Vadim Okhrimenko (story "Tsybala") | Boris Rozenzvejg | Mykola Shpykovskyi (as Nikolai Shpikovsky)
Cinematographer
Aleksei Pankratyev
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Updated May 2, 1929
Release date
May 2, 1929 (Soviet Union)

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