Essential Cult Cinema Mirroring the Impact of Das Experiment des Pr...

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

Through the influence of Ivan Kusmin, a powerful Russian banker, an American girl, under the name of Olga Balashova, advances from the ranks of the Imperial Russian Ballet to prima ballerina.

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Crown of Lies perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Olga Kriga, a boardinghouse girl who dreams of becoming a great actress, is turned down by a theater manager because of the jealousy of the leading lady. She then accompanies her admirer, John Knight, a young flivver salesman, when he accepts an agency offered in a small Balkan country. Karl, an alien, avows that Olga is his beloved "Queen" and begs her to return with him to Sylvania; at the hotel, Count Mirko and his ministers greet her. Count Mirko perceives the resemblance and quickly formulates a scheme to gain wealth and power in the country with Olga posing as the lost queen returning to free the people from tyranny. Accompanied by John, Olga arrives in Sylvania, where the uneasy tyrant, Vorski, agrees to pay for her removal; but after revolt she ascends the throne. Happiness restored, Olga returns to New York with John.

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

The true story of the conflict between Danton and Robespierre, the leaders of the French Revolution.

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Danton perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A man is employed to tutor the children of an aristocratic family and has an affair with the daughter of the house.

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

Cleo, a waitress in a Marseilles waterfront cafe, is lured to Paris by a baron who betrays her. Disillusioned, she resolves to use men as stepping stones to a life of luxury. After becoming a stage favorite on the boulevards and satiated with an easy life, she meets Georges, a poor youth whose honest love restores her faith in men.

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Swan perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Peter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country to establish a navy, and to be able to use the navy, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point with Peter and with Russia, his only son proves a coward, he meets a girl refugee and finally makes her his empress, he alienates the church and many nobles. All these factors finally lead to a conspiracy which, while it is crushed, ends in Peter finding out how he is hated by his people, and in his killing of his son, the remorse for which hastens his own death.

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

A depiction of Jesus Christ's life centered on the treason and the trial.

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Men perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautiful young girl. When they are accidentally left behind in a mining town, they race through the mountains and finally catch it. They travel to Washington and have a great time, but they soon part. They meet again later in the small European country of Graustark, where Grenfall and his friend Harry rescue her from kidnappers, and they then discover that she is actually the country's Princess Yetiva. She is engaged to Prinze Lorenz of Asphan in order to pay off Graustark's enormous debt from the war, but Lorenz is murdered and Grenfall is framed for the crime. Complications ensue.

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

An innocent young librarian, Lily, catches the eye of several officers in a German garrison, and although one of the, Lieutenant Prell, is particularly attracted to her, she marries Colonel Mertzbach, the aristocratic regimental commander. When Lieutenant Prell persists in his pursuit of Lily, tragedy pursues the trio.

Dir: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

Richard De La Croix has a brother, Andreas, who has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A man-about-town named Teddy takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, but when Sappho actually meets Richard, he is unaware that she is the woman who drove Andreas insane.