The Ghost That Never Returns

The Ghost That Never Returns (Russian: Привидение, которое не возвращается, romanized: Prividenie, kotoroe ne vozvrashchaetsya) is a 1930 Soviet made part-sound drama film. It was directed by Abram Room based on a novel by Henri Barbusse.

The Ghost That Never Returns
Directed byAbram Room
Produced bySovkino
Written byValentin Turkin
Based onnovel by Henri Barbusse
StarringBoris Ferdinandov
Music byAleksandr Shenshin
CinematographyDmitriy Feldman
Edited byAnna Kulganek
Release date
  • 15 March 1930 (1930-03-15)
Running time
67 minutes
CountryRussia
Languagepart silent/Russian...titles

It is preserved at the Library of Congress.[1][2]

Plot

The film follows protagonist José Real (Boris Ferdinandov) in his journey from prison to the real world. Real was imprisoned for life for trying to unionize a South American oilfield, and attempting a strike. After serving 10 years of his sentence, he is allowed one day to see his family, an honor from which he will not return. Unbeknownst to him, he is being followed by an agent with orders to assassinate him.[3]

After hopping onto a train to meet his family, Real accidentally falls asleep, and misses his stop. Realizing this, he jumps from the train to try and get back to his stop.[4] Enjoying his newfound freedom, Real once again falls asleep, this time on a boulder, before resuming his journey to his wife and child. He finally finds his house, which is empty of his wife. His father and son are there, however, and tell him of a new strike going on at the local Hillside Inn.

Real arrives at the strike, as does the agent trailing him and the police. Real is ordered to return to the prison. He declines, and declares he will not return. A firefight thus breaks out between the police, and the workers.The film ends as Real rushes home to brandish a gun to fight the police. As several workers are arrested and put in prison, they hear of Real leading the new strike.[5]

Cast
  • Boris Ferdinandov - José Real
  • A. Filippov - Syn Khose
  • Karl Gurnyak - Rabochiy, chlen komiteta
  • Dmitriy Kara-Dmitriev - Shef agentov
  • Ivan Lavrov - Otets Khose
  • A. Repin - Soblaznitel
  • Maksim Shtraukh - Politseyskiy agent
  • Gavril Tereekhov - Santander, lyubovnik
  • Daniil Vvedenskiy - Nachalnik tyurmy

References
  1. Catalog of Feature Films The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p.67 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
  2. The Ghost That Never Returns at silentera.com
  3. "The Ghost That Never Returns (1930)". Flicker Alley. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  4. Ithankyou (26 September 2016). "ithankyou: The Big Countries…The Ghost That Never Returns (1930)/Hell's Hinges (1916), Barbican with The Dodge Brothers". ithankyou. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  5. "THE GHOST THAT NEVER RETURNS (1976 review) | Jonathan Rosenbaum". www.jonathanrosenbaum.net. Retrieved 28 January 2020.


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