The Death Ray

Directed by Lev Kuleshov

With Porfiri Podobed, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Sergei Komarov, Vladimir Fogel and Alexandra Khokhlova

In a Western capitalist country where a fascist government attempts to suppress a socialist uprising, revolutionary leader Thomas Lamm is imprisoned by the government but he escapes to the Soviet Union. There, he meets the engineer Podobed who invents the 'death ray' – a device which explodes gunpowder and fuel mixtures at a distance.