The House of the Dead (Russian: Мёртвый дом, romanized: Myortvyy dom) is a 1932 Russian film directed by Vasili Fyodorov from a script by Viktor Shklovsky, based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Shklovsky changed the name of the script several times, eventually calling it The House of the Dead (Mertvyi dom). The film stars Nikolay Khmelyov, Nikolay Podgorny, Nikolai Vitovtov and Mikhail Zharov.
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Cast
Nikolay Khmelyov as Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Nikolai Podgorny as K.P. Pobedonstzev
Nikolai Vitovtov as Tsar Nikolai I
Nikolai Radin as L.V. Doubelt
Vladimir Belokurov as Stammering Announcer
Vladimir Uralsky
Vasili Kovrigin as Uspensky
Gleb Kuznetsov as Guards soldier
Viktor Shklovsky as Petrashevsky
Georgiy Sochevko as Yastrzhembskiy
Release
The film was banned in Spain in 1935, but acquired by the British National Film Centre and the British Film Museum for showing in the Dostoyevsky jubilee in 1972.