After Death (russian: По́сле сме́рти, ''Pósle smérti'', "After death") is a 1915 Russian film directed by
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 cinemat ...
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Plot
The film is based on the novella ''Klara Milich'' (1883) by
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 dat ...
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"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
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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 schoo ...
– Andrei Bagrov
* Olga Rakhmanova – Kapitolana Markovna, Andrei's aunt
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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 ca ...
– Zoia Kadmina
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Mariya Khalatova – Zoia's mother (as M. Khalatova)
* Tamara Gedevanova – Zoia's sister
* Marfa Kassatskaia – Princess Tarskaia
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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) ...
– Tsenin, Andrei's friend
"По́сле сме́рти (1915)" Full Cast & Crew
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References
Further reading
*Armstrong, Richard,
Mourning Films: A Critical Study of Loss and Grieving in Cinema
', Jefferson: McFarland 2012.
*Boele, Otto. "After Death, the Movie (1915) – Ivan Turgenev, Evgenii Bauer and the Aesthetics of Morbidity". Rodopi: 2010. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/16319
* Drubek, Natascha. ''Russisches Licht''. ''Von der Ikone zum frühen sowjetischen Kino'', Wien – Köln – Weimar: Böhlau 2012.
*Drubek-Meyer, Natascha
Der Film als Leben nach dem Tode (Evgenij Bauėrs Posle smerti, 1915)
. ''Wiener Slawistischer Almanach'' 60, 2007, pp. 457–273.
External links
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* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PomQyFUMJBc – with the score by Michael Brown (performed by Triptych).
* https://reflect.ucl.ac.uk/2019-sers0014-russiancinemahistoryideologysociety/2019/04/11/example-3/
* https://silentsplease.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/after-death/
1915 films
1910s ghost films
1910s Russian-language films
Russian black-and-white films
Russian silent films
Films of the Russian Empire
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