Gang of Batka Knysh

Gang of Batka Knysh

4.81h 6m1924Released

Crime

Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang of Batka Knysh to provoke the White Russians before the final blow.

Cast

Pyotr Leontyev

Chekist Stalnoy / Knysh

Aleksandr Khachaturyants

Red commander

Boris Shlikhting

Petrov

Vladimir Kriger

White commander

T. Kotelnikova

Katya Govorkova

Ivan Arkadin

Katya's father

Olga Narbekova

Mother

F. Osipov

Ugor

Antonin Pankryshev

Kozyrev

Andrei Gorchilin

Knysh's negotiator

Nikolai Okhlopkov

Violinist

Alexandr Gromov

Chairman

Nikolai Bravko

Bandit

Vsevolod Massino

Galina Kravchenko

Lev Ivanov

Party official (uncredited)

Andrey Fayt

Officer

Yevgeni Chervyakov

Ekaterina Maloletnova