''The Lady and the Hooligan'' (russian: Барышня и хулиган, Baryshnya i khuligan) is a 1918 Russian

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

co-directed by

Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, , vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj, Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg, links=y; – 14 Apr ...

and Yevgeni Slavinsky. The script, written by Mayakovsky, is based on the play ''La maestrina degli operai'' (The Workers' Young Schoolmistress) by

Edmondo De Amicis Edmondo De Amicis (; 21 October 1846 – 11 March 1908) was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer. His best-known book is ''Cuore'', a children's novel translated into English as ''Heart''. Early career Born in Oneglia (to ...

Plot summary

A young schoolmistress arrives in a small village to teach reading and writing to boys and men. A hooligan sees her on the street and falls in love with her. Soon he begins to attend her classes. When one lesson is disturbed by one of the students, he beats him. The student seeks revenge with the help of his father and some of his friends. The hooligan is stabbed to death in a fight. Before dying, he asks his mother to call the schoolmistress. After the schoolmistress has kissed him on the lips, he closes his eyes and dies.

Cast

—Lava, the hooligan * Aleksandra Rebikova—the schoolmistress * Fyodor Dunaev—the director of the school * Yan Nevinskiy—the hooligan's classmate

Distribution

On 1 May (May Day), 1919, the film was shown in mass viewings in Moscow and

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

.Marina Burke, "Mayakovsky: Film: Futurism," in ''Avant-garde Film'' by Alexander Graf and Dietrich Scheunemann (Rodopi, 2007), p. 141.

Analysis and Significance

The film includes "fast-paced editing and (limited) shot-reverse-shot editing patterns."

References

External links

* *''Lady and the Hooligan'' available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An852TsSmV0 1918 films Russian silent films Russian black-and-white films Films based on works by Edmondo De Amicis Films of the Russian Empire Articles containing video clips Russian films based on plays {{1910s-Russia-film-stub