A Bright City
1928, RU. Directed by Ivan Pravov & Olga Preobrazhenskaya.
Partially lost movie. Based on the novella ‘The Red Scarf’ by Mikhail Pavlovich Rogi. The story of a peasant woman who comes to the city to join her husband, a factory worker, and finds it difficult to adjust to her new life. Only the fourth part of the film has survived.
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- RU
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Ivan PravovDirector
- Olga PreobrazhenskayaDirector
- Raisa PuzhnayaNastasya Artemova
- Vasiliy GnedochkinPyotr Vasilev
- Emma TsesarskayaTonya
- Elena MaksimovaMarusenka
- Vladimir ChuvelyovBeryozkin
- Aleksandr AntonovConductor
- Aleksandr TimontayevRed army soldier
- Nadezhda KovalyovaCast
- Mariya ShlenskayaVillage gossiper (uncredited)
Details
- Released
- 4 September 1928
- Original title
- Светлый город
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Ivan Pravov, Olga Preobrazhenskaya
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A Bright City runs 68 minutes (1h 8m).
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A Bright City isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 4 September 1928. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed A Bright City?
A Bright City (1928) was directed by Ivan Pravov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya and stars Raisa Puzhnaya, Vasiliy Gnedochkin, Emma Tsesarskaya.