Kador Ben-Salim (Russian: Кадор Бен-Салим) was a Senegalese-Soviet acrobat, Red Army soldier and most likely the only actor of African descent in Soviet film throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. [1 ] A veteran of the Russian Civil War, he…
The life story of this man begs for the big screen: an acrobat from Morocco, who then became a circus performer, a Red Army soldier and the first Soviet dark-skinned actor. Below, we recount his extraordinary adventures in the USSR.