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Voidsville Follies

Works by Emma Bauer (2)

Child of the Big City/The Girl from the Street (Дитя большого города)

Yevgeny Bauer (director/writer)
Boris Zavelev (cinematographer)
Elena P. Smirnova (lead)
Michael Salarow (lead)
Emma Bauer (lead)
Khanzhonkov (production)

Language: Silent, Russian titles, English subtitles, released in Mar 1914
Minutes: 37

Elena P. Smirnova delivers a virtuoso performance that lays down the real deal on Cinderella, while teaching the proper response to the threat “Over my dead body!”.

Featured elements:

: alienation; breaking class; dance; dance-orientale; death scene; femme fatale; flashback; forsaken; infidelity; melodrama; poverty; servitude; suicide; unrequited love; wage slavery

The 1002nd Ruse (Тысяча_вторая_хитрость)

Yevgeny Bauer (director)
Emma Bauer (lead)
Khanzhonkov (production)

Language: Silent, Russian titles, English subtitles, released in May 1915
Minutes: 18

This seems to want to be seen in a comic light, but every opportunity for humor is replaced by a mere suggestion of a possible humorous situation - “insert gag here” - leaving the impression of viewing an incomplete work..or a total flop.

Featured elements:

: aging; by the book; comedy; infidelity; metatheatre

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