Twilight of a woman's soul / A. Khanzhonkov and Pathé frères ; director and designer, Evgenii Bauer.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Bauėr, Evgeniĭ Frant︠s︡evich, 1865-1917, director.

Alexander Street Press.

Akt︠s︡ionernoe obshchestvo "A. Khanzhonkov", production company.

Pathé frères (France), production company.

Language:

Russian

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Drama.

Man-woman relationships.

Socialites.

Rape.

Rape--Drama.

Socialites--Drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Silent films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (49 minutes)

Other Title:

Sumerki zhenskoi dushi

Place of Publication:

Harrington Park, NJ : Milestone Films, 2002.

Language Note:

Silent film with title cards in Russian and English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Russian film poet Evgeni Bauer combined the technical virtuosity of D.W. Griffith with the haunting terror of Edgar Allan Poe and the artist's eye of Johannes Vermeer. He is - perhaps - the greatest film director you have never heard of. During his brief four-year career, Evgeni Bauer created macabre masterpieces. They are dramas darkly obsessed with doomed love and death, astonishing for their graceful camera movements, risqué themes, opulent sets and chiaroscuro lighting. Tragically, Bauer died in 1917, succumbing to pneumonia after breaking his leg. For many decades, Bauer's films were buried in the Soviet archives - declared too "cosmopolitan" and bizarre for the puritanical Soviet regime. But with the fall of the Iron Curtain, Bauer's work has risen like a glorious phoenix out of the ashes of time. Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913), Bauer's first surviving film, tells the story of a society woman who kills her rapist and - in its aftermath - must make a new life for herself when her husband leaves her. After Death (1915), adapted from a story by Ivan Turgenev, explores one of Bauer's favorite themes: the psychological hold of the dead over the living. In The Dying Swan (1916), an artist obsessed with the idea of capturing death on canvas becomes fixated on a mute ballerina.

Participant:

Vera Chernova, Vera Dubovskaia, A. Ugriumov.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed February 09, 2017).

OCLC:

974253667

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.