After Death (1915 film)

After Death (Russian: После смерти) is a Russian 1915 short film directed by Yevgeni Bauer.[1][2][3][4]

Vitold Polonski and Vera Karalli in Posle smerti 1915
After Death
Russian: После смерти
Directed byYevgeni Bauer
Written by
Starring
Music byNeil Brand
CinematographyBoris Zavelev
CountryRussian Empire

Plot

The film is based on a novel by Ivan Turgenev. "Reclusive young man Andrei is reluctantly persuaded out to social events by his friend Tsenin, and encounters the beautiful actress Zoia. The two meet briefly but then he does not see her for months. He is then shocked to learn that she has collapsed and died, and he becomes morbidly and madly obsessed with her."[5]

Starring
  • Vitold Polonsky as Andrei Bagrov
  • Olga Rakhmanova as Kapitolina Markovna, his aunt
  • Vera Karalli as Zoya Kadmina
  • Mariya Khalatova as Her mother (as M. Chalatova)
  • Tamara Gedevanova as Her sister (as T. Gedevanova)
  • Marfa Kassatskaya as Princess Tarskaya (as M. Kasazkaya)
  • Georg Asagaroff as Andrei's friend (as Georgi Azagarov)[6]

References
  1. В Доме кино объединят старый фильм и новую музыку
  2. Анонс событий во Владивостоке на 27 ноября
  3. Сезон российских и советских архивных фильмов начала ХХ века стартовал в Лондоне
  4. В Лондоне стартовал сезон российских и советских архивных фильмов
  5. "Posle Smerti (1915)". BFI. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  6. После смерти (1915) Full Cast & Crew

Further reading

Armstrong, Richard, Mourning Films: A Critical Study of Loss and Grieving in Cinema, Jefferson: McFarland 2012.

Boele, Otto. "After Death, the Movie (1915) - Ivan Turgenev, Evgenii Bauer and the Aesthetics of Morbidity." Rodopi: 2010. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/16319

Drubek, Natascha. Russisches Licht. Von der Ikone zum frühen sowjetischen Kino, Wien – Köln – Weimar: Böhlau 2012.

Drubek-Meyer, Natascha "Der Film als Leben nach dem Tode (Evgenij Bauėrs Posle smerti, 1915)." Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 60, 2007, pp 457-273.


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