The Three Million Trial

A banker sells a house to a religious order, and two thieves, one elegant and one not, fight over the proceeds and end up in the dock together. The Soviet comedy that liked its criminals. Igor Ilyinsky is the petty crook and his face at the trial is the film; Anatoli Ktorov is the gentleman thief. Protazanov for Mezhrabpom, 1926, sixty-six minutes.