Miss Mend

Miss Mend
Directed by	Boris Barnet Fedor Ozep
Written by	Boris Barnet Fedor Ozep Vasili Sakhnovsky
Starring	Igor Ilyinsky Boris Barnet Vladimir Fogel Natalya Glan Sergei Komarov
Cinematography	Yevgeni Alekseyev
Production company	Mezhrabpom-Rus
Release date	1926 (1926)
Running time	250 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Silent

The full film

Miss Mend (also known as The Adventures of the Three Reporters) is a 1926 Soviet spy film, originally realised in three parts, directed by and starring Boris Barnet and Fyodor Otsep. It is loosely based on the adventure novels Mess-Mend by Marietta Shaginyan. The story follows the adventures of three reporters who try to stop a biological attack on the USSR by powerful Western businessmen.^[1][2]

The surviving print is just over four hours long. The film was restored by David Shepard, and released on DVD in December 2009 by Flicker Alley.^[3][4]

Cast

• Natalia Glan - Vivian Mend, secretary
• Boris Barnet - Barnet Champion, tabloid-press reporter
• Vladimir Fogel - Vogel, press-photographer
• Igor Ilyinsky - Tom Hopkins, clerk
• Ivan Koval-Samborski - Arthur Stern
• Sergey Komarov -Chiche
• Peter Repnin - bandit
• Natalia Rozenel [Wikidata] - Elizabeth Stern
• Vladimir Ural - policeman
• Dmitri Kapka - passenger
• Mikhail Zharov -
• Michael Rosen Sanin -
• Tatiana Mukhina - homeless Kolka
• Anel Sudakevich - stenographer
• Irina Volodko -
• P. Poltoratsky -
• S. Goetz - John, Vivian's nephew

References

1. "Мисс Менд". VokrugTV.
2. "Все тайны "Мисс Менд". Х/ф". Russia-K.
3. Boris Barnet, "Miss Mend"
4. "Miss Mend", Flicker Alley

External links

• Miss Mend at IMDb
• Miss Mend at the TCM Movie Database (archived version)
• Miss Mend at Rotten Tomatoes
• Miss Mend on YouTube
• Dave Kehr (11 December 2009) "DVDS: All-American Soviet Heroine", The New York Times
• "Miss Mend (1926) A Silent Film Review" (3 February 2013) Movies Silently