Leonid Andreyev

Leonid Andreyev

출생 : 1871-08-21, Oryol, Russian Empire [now Russia]

사망 : 1919-09-12

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Leonid Andreyev

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The Blessed
Story
A priest spends his days praying masses and listening to the confessions of the few remaining faithful. One day a devil is sent to the city to torment the parish, but he asks the priest for help because he no longer wants to do evil.
Iuda
Novel
Judas, a seasoned thief, finds himself in the market square where Christ is giving a sermon and his apostles are collecting alms. He follows them and steals their money, only to be caught red-handed. Nevertheless, the Teacher forgives him. What is more, He invites the thief to become one of His followers and offers him a position as the group’s treasurer. Shocked by Christ’s unexpected offer, Judas decides to join the apostles, if only to figure out what is going on. He gradually starts to comprehend Christ’s message, but feels that the apostles are blindly following their teacher. Judas argues with them, and tries to defend his right to divine the truth of God. But when he fails to make them understand, he realizes that Christ’s teachings may sink into oblivion without benefiting humanity. His solution is to betray Christ. “By killing a man, have I not saved a God?”
The Wilderness
Short Story
An adaptation of Jesus' life, the film mixes real and imaginary characters, biblical and historical references, to present two worlds condemned to coexist.
The Wilderness
Story
An adaptation of Jesus' life, the film mixes real and imaginary characters, biblical and historical references, to present two worlds condemned to coexist.
Purification
Novel
Зверь ликующий
Story
The Christians
Story
A woman refuses to take an oath before the christian cross.
Ten, který dostává políčky
Theatre Play
Days of Our Life
Novel
A kormányzó
Novel
The Ballad of Seven Hanged Men
Novel
Seven people waiting for their death. A group of assasins - three men and two women - and Gypsy thief spend their time in prison to be tucked up.
La mujer de a seis litros
Story
Anthology movie, three cynical "contes cruels."
Asylum
Story
Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.
Asylum
Short Story
Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.
El que recibe las bofetadas
Novel
The White Eagle
Novel
The film is based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor of a small Russian province who tries to treat the people under his authority with kindness and equanimity. But when a local factory goes on strike, the governor buckles under to pressure from the Tzar and orders the wholesale slaughter of the strikers. He pays for this betrayal of his trust with his life -- at the hands of a courageous Bolshevik spy.
He Who Gets Slapped
Novel
Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.
Story of Seven Who Were Hanged
Story
Zhenshchina s kinzhalom
Novel
Ivan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees in her only the perfect model for his picture, "The Dagger Woman." Studying her, and by carefully playing on her emotions he gains her confidence, and afterward she consents to pose for him. The picture completed, she is grieved and then angered to discover that Ivan's interest rests solely in it, and how it will fare at the exhibition. She pleads with him in vain. The picture is pronounced a masterpiece, and Ivan is in his triumph as he returns to his studio. Here Olga has secreted herself. Humiliated by the reports circulated regarding herself and the artist, and unable longer to bear his disinterest she plunges a dagger to his heart and kills him.
Tot, kto poluchaet poshchechiny
Novel
Days of Our Life
Novel
Anfisa
Novel
The Kostomarov family falls apart when a female relative joins the household.