THE SELF SEEKER (1929) Dora Feller-Spikovskaya, Dimitry Kaka & Luka Lyashenko |Comedy |Old Hollywood

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The Self Seeker (Russian: Шкурник, romanized: Shkurnyk) is a 1929 Soviet film directed by Nikolai Shpikovsky.

Synopsis:

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.

Cast & Crew:

Dora Feller-Spikovskaya as Commissar
Dimitry Kaka as Colonel
Luka Lyashenko as Head of Partisans
Ivan Sadovskiy as Apollon Z. Shmyguev 'Shkurnik' (as Ivan Sadovski)
S. Vlasenko as Chief of bootlegging check-point

Directed by: Nikolai Shpikovsky
Written by: Vadim Okhrimenko, Boris Rozenzvejg, Nikolai Shpikovsky
Cinematography: Aleksei Pankratyev
Release Date: 1929
Country of Origin: Soviet Union
Original Language: Russian