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Kashtanka
Also known as [Chestnut]
(1926) Soviet Union
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Ivan Pravov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya

Cast: Nikolai Panov [Clown George], Yevgeniya Khovanskaya [the boarding house mistress], Naum Rogozhin [Mazamet, the organ grinder], Antonin Pankryshev [Luka], Leonid Yurenev [‘Gvozd’ (Nail), a tramp], Yuri Zimin [Fedya], Elena Tyapkina [Nastasia], Gulya Korolyova [the girl at the pipe market], B. Sneguiriev [the Agafon coachman], Nikolay Trofimov [a homeless boy], Mikhail Zharov, Jackie [she-dog]

Sovkino production; distributed by [?] Sovkino? / Scenario by Yuri Bolotov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya, from a short story by Anton Chekhov. Production design by Dmitri Kolupayev. Assistant director, N. Zubova. Cinematography by Grigori Giber. / Released 3 December 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Tyapkina’s film debut.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 13 June 2025.

References: Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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