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Voidsville Follies

Works by Vera Karalli (2)

After Death (По́сле сме́рти)

Yevgeny Bauer (director/writer)
Boris Zavelev (cinematographer)
Ivan Turgenev (author)
Vera Karalli (lead)
Vitold Polonsky (lead)
Georg Asagaroff (lead)
Olga Rakhmanova (lead)
Khanzhonkov (production)

Language: Silent, Russian titles, English subtitles, released in Dec 1915
Minutes: 46

Stark, gripping, haunting, enigmatic - not your average drive-in flick...Go deeper: see review on Silents, Please!

Featured elements:

: abstraction; afterlife; alienation; backstage; death scene; flashback; humanoids; melodrama; obsession; suicide; unrequited love

The Dying Swan (Умирающий лебедь)

Yevgeny Bauer (director)
Boris Zavelev (cinematographer)
Zoya Barantsevich (writer)
Vera Karalli (lead)
Aleksandr Kheruvimov (lead)
Vitold Polonsky (lead)
Andrey Gromov (lead)
Khanzhonkov (production)

Language: Silent, Russian titles, English subtitles, released in Jan 1917
Minutes: 49

“There is no need for words if your soul is singing” - the lawyer told her...

Featured elements:

: abstraction; afterlife; alienation; backstage; dance; dance-ballet; death scene; foreshadowing; forsaken; humanoids; obsession; psycho; tragic artist; unrequited love

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