Gutta-percha Boy

Gutta-percha Boy
Directed byVladimir Gerasimov
Written byMikhail Volpin
Produced byValentin Maslov
StarringSasha Popov
Alexey Gribov
Mikhail Nazvanov
CinematographyGalina Pyshkova
Edited byAnna Kulganek
Music byAntonio Spadavecchia
Production
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Release date
  • August 27, 1957 (1957-08-27)
Running time
76 min
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

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

Plot

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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.

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