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Twentieth Century Theatre presents: The White Guard

on BBC Television

(See panel and page 3)

by Michael Bulgakov
English adaptation by Rodney Ackland
Television version by David Tutaev
[Starring] Marius Goring, Sarah Lawson, David Cameron, Rupert Davies, Paul Daneman with Patrick Allen and Timothy Bateson

Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine, still occupied by the Germans in the winter of 1918, is defended by the last remnants of a Tsarist Division against the rebellious Cossacks, while from the north a new incalculable force approaches-the Bolshevik Army

Contributors

Author:
Michael Bulgakov
English:
adaptation by Rodney Ackland
Television:
version by David Tutaev
Produced:
by Rudolph Cartier
Balalaika music arranged and played by:
Gregori Tcherniak
Accordion played by:
null Delmondi
Special Effects:
Jack Kine
Special Effects:
Bernard Wilkie
Designer:
Norman James
Alexis Turbin, Colonel of Artillery:
Marius Goring
Nikolas Turbin, his brother, a Cadet Officer:
Paul Daneman
Helena, their sister:
Sarah Lawson
Lariosik ('Larry'), their cousin:
Timothy Bateson
Colonel Vladimir Talberg, Helena's husband:
Richard Warner
Captain Victor Mishlayevsky:
Rupert Davies
Lieut. Leonid Shervinsky, Adjutant to the Governor:
David Cameron
Captain Sasha Studzinsky:
Patrick Allen
The Governor of the Ukraine:
Richard Marner
German Staff Officers - Von Schratt:
Frederick Schiller
German Staff Officers - Von Dust:
Theodore Wilhelm
Fyodor, valet at the Governor's Palace:
Erik Chitty
Maxim, watchman at the Military College:
Bernard Spear
First Officer:
Bryan Kendrick
Second Officer:
Roderick Joyce
Third Officer:
David Rayner
Junior Officer:
Richard Statman
Kirpaty, a Cossack:
Van Boolen
Officers, Cadets, Soldiers, and Cossacks:
[Artists uncredited]

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