When the Dead Awaken

Plot Summary

The movie takes place in one of the Russian provincial cities during the Civil War. A local priest, together with the ex-estate manager buries count's treasures and disguises it as his nephew's funeral. And when his nephew Nikeshka Vonmiglasov, a former Wrangelian, suddenly appears, he understands that he can profit on his magical "resurrection".

Top Cast

Igor Ilyinsky Nikeshka Vonmiglasov

Pyotr Repnin Ardalion Medalionov, telegraph operator

Nikolai Vashkevich Matvey, priest

Antonin Pankryshev Deacon

I. Vysotsky Menzurkin, village doctor