Gutta-percha Boy

Gutta-percha Boy
Directed by	Vladimir Gerasimov
Written by	Mikhail Volpin
Produced by	Valentin Maslov
Starring	Sasha Popov Alexey Gribov Mikhail Nazvanov
Cinematography	Galina Pyshkova
Edited by	Anna Kulganek
Music by	Antonio Spadavecchia
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	August 27, 1957 (1957-08-27)
Running time	76 min
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Gutta-percha Boy (Russian: Гуттаперчевый мальчик, romanized: Guttaperchevyy malchik) is a 1957 Soviet drama film adaptation of the novel by Russian writer Dmitry Grigorovich.

Plot

The film is set in the end of the 19th century.

Petya, is an eight-year orphan who has been given into training to the German acrobat Karl Becker, who with curses and beatings introduces his new assistant to the circus profession and ruthlessly exploits the child in his performances. The only consolation which brightens the harsh life of the gutta-percha boy, as Petya is referred to on the posters, is the concern of the carpet clown Edwards, who pities the orphan and secretly teaches him the real art of the circus... During one of the performances, Petya while performing a difficult trick on Becker's demand, falls from a high altitude.

Cast

• Alexey Gribov as Clown Edwards
• Mikhail Nazvanov as Karl Bogdanovich Bekker
• Aleksandr Popov as Petya Subbotin (as Sasha Popov)
• Inna Fyodorova as Varvara Akimovna
• Olga Vikladt as Maria Pavlovna
• Ivan Koval-Samborsky as Circus Manager
• Andrei Popov as Count Sergey
• Marina Strizhenova as Countess
• Aleksandra Popova as Aunt Sonya
• Marina Gutkovich as Verochka

External links

• Guttaperchevyy malchik (1957) at IMDb