"The Flood" ( 1915 ) - a silent feature film by Pyotr Chardynin , an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Henryk Senkevich . The film was shot in two series (1st series - 1460 m., 2nd series - 1500 m.). The film was released on April 14, 1915 . The film has not been preserved.
| The flood | |
|---|---|
| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Peter Chardynin |
| In the main cast | Alexander Vyrubov (Prince Janusz Radziwill, Governor of Vilensky) Ivan Mozzhukhin (Andrey Kmitsits, Orsha cornet) Peter Starkovsky (Mikhail Volodyevsky) Alexander Cherubimov (Zagloba) Arseny Bibikov (Kordetsky, rector of the Czestochowa monastery) Pavel Knorr (Miller, Swedish military leader) Peter Lopukhin (Yuzva Butrym) Andrei Gromov (Colonel Kuklinovsky) Nadezhda Nelskaya (Olenka Billevich) |
| Film company | Acc. A. Khanzhonkov Island |
| Duration | 8 hours, 2960 meters |
| A country |  Russian empire |
| Year | 1915 |
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Content
Making a movie
The consultant of Chardynin was the Polish film director Edward Pukhalsky , who earlier (1912) made an attempt to film the novel, which, however, was not completed, since the Russian authorities forbade the director to attract soldiers to participate in the shooting (the negative of this unfinished film by Pukhalsky was sold to Khanzhonkov).
Rental
The film was shot in imitation of the Italian peplum Kabiriya ( 1914 ), which was very popular. However, the film itself, according to S. Ginzburg, "did not attract the attention of the audience." [one]
Criticism
[Film] in terms of size, content, historical, everyday, battle scenes is one of the attempts of Russian cinematography to give a production similar to the historical productions of Italian firms
- “Sine-Fono”, 1915, No. 11-12 [1]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Ginzburg S. Cinematography of pre-revolutionary Russia. - M .: Art, 1963. - S. 213, 275.