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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 877

Cross and Mauser

192575 minSoviet Union

Synopsis

A priest secretly involved with foreign spies tries to use a woman's former relationship with a police official to obtain information. She knows a crime from his own past that connects him to a child's death and a manufactured accusation against the Jewish community. Her refusal to cooperate forces him toward a confession that threatens the conspiracy sheltering behind his position.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs: 74:56
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Госкино · Public domain

Cast

V. Kiselyova

Nikolay Kutuzov

Naum Rogozhin

Pyotr Savin

T. Sinitsyna

Pyotr Starkovsky

DirectorsVladimir Gardin

Historical context

Gardin's film belongs to Soviet anti-religious propaganda. Its fictional plot presents clerical authority, espionage and an antisemitic provocation as connected instruments of political manipulation.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 12, 2026.

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Pyotr Savin — Film screenshot; [1] · Public domain

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