"Burnt Wings" ( 1915 ) - silent film of art directed by Yevgeny Bauer . The film was released on October 27, 1915 [1] . The film has not been preserved [2] .
Burnt wings | |
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Genre | drama |
Producer | Eugene Bauer |
Producer | Alexander Khanzhonkov |
In the main cast | Vera caralli |
Operator | Boris Zavelev |
Film company | Ac Is. A. Khanzhonkov |
A country | Russian empire |
Year | 1915 |
Content
Story
The plot is borrowed from the novel Olga Org by Yuri Slezkin [1] . The novel aroused great interest at that time, especially among young people. Khanzhonkov immediately acquired the rights to film him, and Yevgeny Bauer staged the film “Burnt Wings” about the disastrous influence of Bohemia on young people [3] . The young heroine (in the film her name is not Olga, but Tanya) is disappointed with the reigning morals in society and is tired of living in her beginning.
Young Tanya sees a stranger at the station, and his image falls into her soul. However, he is leaving. Then Tanya is fond of her brother's friend Mstislavsky and is given to him. Tanya is loved by schoolboy Seryozha, and he shares his feelings with Mstislavsky. He says he is ready to share with him and calls Tanya. Tanya runs away.
Tanya's mother dies. After some time, to the indignation of Tanya, her father has a new housekeeper who feels like the mistress of the house. Tanya decides to go to Moscow. She is looking for work, but everywhere she comes up with obscene offers. According to the secret recommendation of Mstislavsky, Tanya receives an invitation from a prince who enjoys it.
Tanya still bears in her soul the image of a stranger who turns out to be an artist and friend of the writer Zheltukhin. Zheltukhin and a friend come to Tanya, but by that moment she is already the prince's mistress.
Tanya feels mired in vice and unworthy of pure love. She commits suicide.
The film shows the negative aspects of the life of the youth of the mid-1910s, the lack of ideals among young people, the prevalence of drunkenness among them, and debauchery. The heroine of the film sees herself in a dream entangled in the web [2] . The film contains scenes of attempted rape and suicide.
Cast
Actor | Role |
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Sergey Rassatov | Stravchinsky official |
Bronislava Rutkovskaya | his wife |
Vera caralli | Tanya, their daughter |
Nikolay Margaritov | Valentin, her brother |
Osip Runich | Jozef Mstislavsky, his friend |
Witold Polonsky | Lavrinsky, artist |
Konstantin Karenin | Prince of Batal |
Lydia of Triden | Cleopatra Ivanovna |
Arseny Bibikov | Zheltukhin, writer |
George Azagarov | tangist |
Vitaly Bryansky | Serozha, high school student |
Film crew
- Director: Eugene Bauer
- Operator: Boris Zavelev
- Producer: Alexander Khanzhonkov
Criticism
The reviewer of the Projector magazine reproached the film's authors with an abundance of images of the evil sides of the youth: “a tub of dirt, an avalanche of violence, pimping, debauchery and drunkenness falls on a stunned viewer” [4] [5] . At the same time, he stated that “the tape was technically very well done”.
The critic Valentin Turkin wrote in Pegas magazine that “the picture came out interesting” and “the veracity of the gesture and the beauty of the form smoothed over largely the features of the most ordinary melodrama” [4] [6] .
The journal “Ekran Rossii” (1916, No. 1) pointed out that “this production leaves a wonderful, bright impression” and that “it was bribed by a civilian motive, which brought to please the whimsical twists of human psychology ...” [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Vishnevsky, 1945 , p. 71
- ↑ 1 2 The Great Kinemo, 2002 , p. 344.
- ↑ 1 2 Grashchenkova, 2005 , p. 76.
- ↑ 1 2 Short, 2009 , p. 42
- Проект Projector, 1915, No. 3, p. 15.
- ↑ Pegasus, 1915, No. 1, p. 100-101.
Literature
- Vishnevsky V.Ye. Feature films of pre-revolutionary Russia. - M .: Goskinoizdat, 1945. - p. 71. - 194 p.
- The Great Kinemo: A catalog of surviving feature films of Russia (1908-1919) / Comp.: V. Ivanova, V. Mylnikova, S. Skovorodnikova, Yu. Tsivyan, R. Yangirov. - M .: New Literary Review, 2002. - P. 344. - 568 p.
- Short VM Operators and directors of Russian feature films. 1897-1921. - M .: Scientific Research Institute of Cinema, 2009. - p. 42. - 430 p.
- Grashchenkova I. N. Silver Age cinema. Russian cinema of the 10s and Cinema of the Russian post-October abroad of the 20s. - M. , 2005. - p. 76. - 432 p.
Links
- "Burnt Wings" on the site "Encyclopedia of the national cinema"
- The film “Burnt Wings” on the site RUData.ru