Michel Elaguine

Birth : 1902-09-06, Petrograd, Russian Empire [now St. Petersburg, Russia]

Movies

Čtrnáctý u stolu
The Hard Life of an Adventurer
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.
Mořská panna
A Step into the Darkness
A dashing but mysterious man saves a gambler from suicide, crashes the posh party of a prominent industrialist, falls in love with his daughter, and finds himself in a web of intrigue revolving around her blackmailing fiance and a gang of counterfeiters.
Důvod k rozvodu
The World Belongs to Us
One of the few European films of the 30s to criticize the Nazis, even if they couldn't be directly named due to censorship: Gangsters with gray hats stir up trouble in what is obviously the Sudetenland.
Lidé na kře
Venice Film Festival 1937
Páter Vojtěch