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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] |
