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Voidsville Follies

Works by Yevgeny Bauer (4)

The 1002nd Ruse (Тысяча_вторая_хитрость)

Yevgeny Bauer (director)
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

Daydreams (Грёзы)

Yevgeny Bauer (director)
Boris Zavelev (cinematographer)
Georges Rodenbach (author)
Alexander Wyrubow (lead)
N. Tschernobajewa (lead)
Khanzhonkov (production)

Language: Silent, Russian titles, English subtitles, released in Oct 1915
Minutes: 38

Inspirational tale of a closet fetishistic necrophiliac who bravely comes out as a proud necrosadist.

Featured elements:

: abstraction; alienation; alter ego; backstage; breaking class; dance; death scene; flashback; obsession; psycho; servitude

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; death scene; foreshadowing; forsaken; humanoids; obsession; psycho; tragic artist; unrequited love

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