Military Court Tries Conspirators (1923)

Trial of conspirators in USSR; 1923. Moscow (Russia, Soviet Union). Pan on faces of people in crowd. People enter building in single file; stopped by Red Army guards who look at each person s papers. Interior: people walking past. CU Nikolai Krylenko; People s Commissar for Justice (seems like attorney for prosecution); with another man leaning in to talk to him. CU of various pieces of evidence on table: papers; books; a handgun; bullets; a few tiny boxes; etc. CU Ms. Konopleva speaking in court; she is accused of being one of the leaders of the revolutionary party and of the plot or should one say counterrevolutionary party. Shot looking down and panning right on men and women seated at table; writing. CU bearded man reading the verdict; he looks like stereotypical image of Bolsheviks. CU a few people seated in rows; listening; possibly the accused FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIE