''Silent Witnesses'' (Немые свидетели) is a 1914 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 ...
about the relationship between masters and servants in
pre-revolutionary Russia.
Plot
When Variusha, a maid in a Russian upper-class household, is not allowed to go and see her children in the country, the porter's granddaughter Nastya agrees to replace her. Soon she attracts the attention of Pavel, the son of the house, who starts flirting with her. When Nastya finds out that Yelena, Pavel's fiancée, has a lover, she tries to chase him away and refuses the money offered to her to remain silent. But Pavel does not want to endanger the wedding arranged for him. He has lost interest in Nastya and treats her only as a maid.
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Cast
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Aleksandr Chargonin as Pavel Kostritsyn
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Aleksandr Kheruvimov
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as The Porter
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Dora Chitorina as Nastya
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Elsa Krueger
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as Yelena
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Andrey Gromov
Andrey Gromov (russian: Андрей Антонович Громов; 1887 — 1922) was a Russian film actor. Gromov played in about 40 films.
Selected filmography
* 1909 — '' 16th Century Russian Wedding''
* 1909 — '' Mazeppa''
* 1909 — ...
References
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1914 films
Articles containing video clips
Russian silent feature films
Russian black-and-white films
Films of the Russian Empire
1910s Russian-language films
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