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After Death (1915 Film)
After Death (russian: По́сле сме́рти, ''Pósle smérti'', "After death") is a 1915 Russian film directed by Yevgeni Bauer. Plot The film is based on the novella ''Klara Milich'' (1883) by Ivan Turgenev. "Reclusive young man Andrei is reluctantly persuaded out to social events by his friend Tsenin, and encounters the beautiful actress Zoia. The two meet briefly but then he does not see her for months. He is then shocked to learn that she has collapsed and died, and he becomes morbidly and madly obsessed with her." Starring * Vitold Polonsky – Andrei Bagrov * Olga Rakhmanova – Kapitolana Markovna, Andrei's aunt * Vera Karalli – Zoia Kadmina * Mariya Khalatova – Zoia's mother (as M. Khalatova) * Tamara Gedevanova – Zoia's sister * Marfa Kassatskaia – Princess Tarskaia * Georg Asagaroff Georg Asagaroff (1892–1957) was a Russian-born actor and film director.Bock & Bergfelder p. 211 He left Russia following the 1917 Revolution and settled in German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeni Bauer
Yevgeni Franzevich Bauer (russian: Евгений Францевич Бауэр) (1865 – ) was a Russian film director of silent films, a theatre artist and a screenwriter. His work had a great influence on the aesthetics of Russian cinematography at the beginning of the 20th century. Bauer made more than seventy films between 1913 and 1917 of which 26 survived. He already used the relatively long sequence shots and displacements that would come to be associated with camera virtuosos. ''Los Angeles Times'' film critic Kenneth Turan called Bauer "The greatest director you've never heard of." Georges Sadoul called him "the first true artist in the history of cinema". Biography Bauer was born in Moscow in 1865, the son of the Bohemian immigrant musician Franz Bauer and his wife, an operatic singer. From childhood, Bauer displayed artistic tendencies and participated in his favourite dramatised scenes (his sister was a professional actress). In 1887, Bauer graduated from the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (; rus, links=no, Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́невIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; 9 November 1818 – 3 September 1883 (Old Style dates: 28 October 1818 – 22 August 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection titled ''A Sportsman's Sketches'' (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism. His novel '' Fathers and Sons'' (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Life Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in Oryol (modern-day Oryol Oblast, Russia) to noble Russian parents Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev (1793–1834), a colonel in the Russian cavalry who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812, and Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva (née Lutovinova; 1787–1850). His father belonged to an old, but impoverished Turge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitold Polonsky
Vitold Alfonsovich Polonsky (Russian: Витольд Альфонсович Полонский; 1879 – 5 January 1919) was a Russian silent film actor. Biography The son of a nobleman, Polonsky took drama courses in the Moscow theatre school, graduating in 1907. He acted in the Maly Theatre (Moscow) until 1916. He was one of the most popular actors in pre-Revolutionary Russian cinema. His first role was that of Prince Andrey Bolkonsky in the 1915 film Natasha Rostova. He played several hero-lover roles including Boris in ''The Brothers Boris and Gleb''; Boris in ''Irina Kirsanova''; Evgeny in ''The Song of Tumultuous Love''; Andrey Bargov in ''After Death''; Vladislav Zaritsky in ''Shadows of Sin'' (all 1915); Prince Baratynsky in ''A Life for a Life'' (1916); Lanin in ''By The Fireplace'' (1917) and Prince Mirsky in ''Evening Sacrifice''. Polonsky was married twice. His first wife was the Maly Theatre actress Vera Nikolaevna Pashennaya (1887–1962), who became a National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Karalli
Vera Alexeyevna Karalli (russian: Вера Алексеевна Каралли; 27 July 1889 – 16 November 1972) was a Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and silent film actress during the early years of the 20th century. Early life and career Born in Moscow, Karalli graduated from the Moscow Theatre School in 1906 under the direction of the prominent Russian instructor Alexander Gorsky. Karalli performed with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company in 1909, as well as 1919 and 1920.Andros on Ballet She became a soloist at the after two years and became a ballerina in 1915. Karalli was frequently paired with ''danseur'' |
Neil Brand
Neil Brand (born 18 March 1958) is an English dramatist, composer and author. In addition to being a regular silent film accompanist at London's National Film Theatre, Brand has composed new scores for two restored films from the 1920s, '' The Wrecker'' and Anthony Asquith's ''Underground''. Brand has also acted and written plays for the BBC. His book, ''Dramatic Notes'', focuses on the art of composing narrative music for the cinema, theatre, radio and television. For his contribution to music, in 2016, Brand was awarded with a BASCA Gold Badge Award. Background and education Brand was born in Burgess Hill, Sussex, England, and attended Junction Road Primary School in Burgess Hill, then Brighton and Hove County Grammar School for Boys (now Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College). At the age of 18, he went to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, to study Drama under John Edmunds. However, he had a talent for music, and it was at Aberystwyth that he began writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighbouring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing China. It also held colonies in North America between 1799 and 1867. Covering an area of approximately , it remains the third-largest empire in history, surpassed only by the British Empire and the Mongol Empire; it ruled over a population of 125.6 million people per the 1897 Russian census, which was the only census carried out during the entire imperial period. Owing to its geographic extent across three continents at its peak, it featured great ethnic, linguistic, religious, and economic diversity. From the 10th–17th centuries, the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitold Polonski And Vera Karalli In Posle Smerti 1915
Vytautas (c. 135027 October 1430), also known as Vytautas the Great (Lithuanian: ', be, Вітаўт, ''Vitaŭt'', pl, Witold Kiejstutowicz, ''Witold Aleksander'' or ''Witold Wielki'' Ruthenian: ''Vitovt'', Latin: ''Alexander Vitoldus'', Old German: ''Wythaws or Wythawt'') from the late 14th century onwards, was a ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He was also the Prince of Grodno (1370–1382), Prince of Lutsk (1387–1389), and the postulated king of the Hussites. In modern Lithuania, Vytautas is revered as a national hero and was an important figure in the national rebirth in the 19th century. ''Vytautas'' is a popular male given name in Lithuania. In commemoration of the 500-year anniversary of his death, Vytautas Magnus University was named after him. Monuments in his honour were built in many towns in the independent Lithuania during the interwar period from 1918 to 1939. It is known that Vytautas himself knew and spoke in the Lithuanian language with Jogaila. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariya Khalatova
Mariya Khalatova (russian: Мария Халатова) was a Russian film actress. Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Selected filmography * 1914 — '' Gospodin director flirtuyet'' * 1915 — '' Leon Drey'' * 1915 — ''After Death (1915 film) After Death (russian: По́сле сме́рти, ''Pósle smérti'', "After death") is a 1915 Russian film directed by Yevgeni Bauer. Plot The film is based on the novella ''Klara Milich'' (1883) by Ivan Turgenev. "Reclusive young man Andrei ...'' References External links Мария Халатоваon kino-teatr.ru * {{DEFAULTSORT:Khalatova, Mariya Russian film actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Asagaroff
Georg Asagaroff (1892–1957) was a Russian-born actor and film director.Bock & Bergfelder p. 211 He left Russia following the 1917 Revolution and settled in Germany where he directed several films. Selected filmography * ''After Death'' (1915) * ''Love of Life'' (1924) * '' Eva and the Grasshopper'' (1927) * '' Milak, the Greenland Hunter'' (1928) * '' Escape from Hell'' (1928) * '' Revolt in the Reformatory'' (1929) * ''The Age of Seventeen ''The Age of Seventeen'' (german: Die Siebzehnjährigen) is a 1929 German silent film directed by Georg Asagaroff and starring Grete Mosheim, Hans Adalbert Schlettow and Martin Herzberg.Kasten p. 146 It was shot at the Terra Studios in Berlin. ...'' (1929) * ''The Green Monacle'' (1930) * ''Das Donkosakenlied'' (1930) * '' Checkmate'' (1931) * '' The Mad Bomberg'' (1932) References Bibliography * External links * 1892 births 1957 deaths Male actors from Moscow Film directors from the Russian Empire Male actors from the Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natascha Drubek
Natascha Drubek (Drubek-Meyer) is a researcher, author and editor in the area of Central and East European literature, film and media. Since 2012 she has been teaching Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies at the Free University of Berlin (in 2020-21 as professor of thFONTE-Stiftung. She is one of the developers of Hyperkino and the editor-in-chief of the open access academic journal Apparatus. From 2003 until 2014 she was the editor of the Film and Screen Media section of ''ARTmargins'', a journal for contemporary Central & Eastern European Visual Culture. Between 2009 and 2015 Natascha Drubek was a Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgeminschaft at the University of Regensburg pursuing two projects: Soviet Antireligious Films and Campaigns and the film projects in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. In 2014, during her Heisenberg fellowship she organized a conference on film propaganda in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. In 2016, Drubek published a selec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Films
The year 1915 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * February 1: Fox Film Corporation founded * February 8: D.W Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks both box office and film length records (running at a total length of over three hours). * February: Metro Pictures, a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is founded * February 22: The Allan Dwan directed film ''David Harum'' is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood. * March 15: Universal Studios Hollywood opens ( 1964). * June 18: The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California. * July: Triangle Film Corporation is founded in Culver City, California and attracts filmmakers D. W. Griffith, Thomas H. Ince and Mack Sennett * September 11: A nitrate fire at Famous Players in New York destroys several compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910s Ghost Films
Year 191 ( CXCI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Bradua (or, less frequently, year 944 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 191 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Parthia * King Vologases IV of Parthia dies after a 44-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Vologases V. China * A coalition of Chinese warlords from the east of Hangu Pass launches a punitive campaign against the warlord Dong Zhuo, who seized control of the central government in 189, and held the figurehead Emperor Xian hostage. After suffering some defeats against the coalition forces, Dong Zhuo forcefully relocates the imperial capital from Luoyang to Chang'an. Before leaving, Dong Zhuo orders his troops to loot the tombs of the Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
