Soviet cinema's most chaotic revolutionary heist you've never heard of.
The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.
Production
Gloriously overbuilt Soviet period sets that ate half the budget.
Acting
Gurgen Tonunts commits fully to Kamo's wild-eyed revolutionary energy.
Director
Erazm Karamyan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is part two of a trilogy, yet most Western audiences have seen zero—Soviet film distribution was wild like that.
Kamo was Stalin's actual childhood friend, and these films were made during Khrushchev's thaw—awkward timing for hagiography.
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