Sergei Nikolaevich Nedelin
Sergei's beloved wife Yelena has passed away, and the bereaved husband is inconsolable. He remains obsessed with pictures of Yelena and with a braid of her hair that he has saved. Based on the novel Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach.
Early lost Russian horror film.
Mordenko, the clerk
Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.
A female doctor is so busy with her work that she has too little time for her fiancé. He falls in love with a waitress and the two have a child. Though considered by some to be a proto-feminist yarn, the film dwells on the consequences that equal rights for women may generate rather than openly champion suffrage. Similar in to Ibsen's The Doll House in many ways, the film provides mannered, solemn melodrama, ably acted by Mosjoukine and Yureneva.
