title: Golden Beak
text: # Golden Beak
  
  Golden Beak (Russian: Золотой клюв, romanized: Zolotoy klyuv) is a 1928 Soviet drama film directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov. Screen version of the eponymous historical novel by Anna Karavaeva.
  
  One of the last three Soviet silent films that appeared on the screens in 1929, along with the films The New Babylon and Fragment of an Empire.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Hundreds of serfs are sent to work at the proud factory "Golden Beak", where they work in extremely difficult conditions. People dreamed of freedom, and their power was cruelly suppressed. Suddenly a group of workers managed to escape. They have been looking for the cherished valley of Bukhtarma for a long time, where, according to legend, there is a promised land. Having reached it, they organized a free peasant state.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * A. Yefimov as Stepan
  * Gennadiy Michurin as Marey
  * Sergei Minin as Sencha
  * Mikhail Gipsi as The elder Shushin
  * Boris Dmokhovsky as The younger Shushin
  * Pyotr Berezov as Dandy
  * Boris Livanov as Major Tuchkov
  * Anna Sten as Varenka
  * Konstantin Gibshman as Factory manager
  * Antonina Sadovskaya as Manager's wife
  * Aleksei Bogdanovsky as Foreign specialist
  * Valeri Plotnikov as Mereykha
  * A. Galatova as Ksyusha
  * Leonid Kmit as Peasant
  