Kashtanka (1926)

4.5/10 76 min Drama

Overview

Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child.

Cast

Nikolai Panov

Georges, clown

Yevgeniya Khovanskaya

Owner of the night shelter

Naum Rogozhin

Mazamet, organ-grinder

Antonin Pankryshev

Luka

Leonid Yurenyov

Gvozd, vagabond

Yelena Tyapkina

Nastasya, washerwoman

Gulya Korolyova

Girl from the Trubny market (uncredited)

Nikolay Trofimov

Street boy (uncredited)

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