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Dir: Yevgeny Bauer

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Yevgeny Bauer

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

Nelly Raintseva's life has been going on in very unfavorable conditions since childhood. Her father, a wealthy banker, was busy exclusively with his commercial affairs, and her mother was engaged in social flirtation.

Dir: Yevgeny Bauer

Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal. When Zhurov introduces his friend Prince Bartinsky to the family, both young women soon fall in love with the dashing but irresponsible prince. The prince is in love with Nata, but because of his enormous debts, he decides to marry Musya to get her dowry, and he allows Nata to marry Zhurov. All the while, Mrs. Khromova remains very uneasy, fearing that marriage is unlikely to cause the self-indulgent prince to change his ways.

Dir: Yevgeny Bauer

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Her Sister's Rival perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The famous wrestler Carlo de Milano possessed extraordinary strength. Together with his adopted son, he bought an old house with a vineyard and a deep basement, where a rotten staircase led.

Dir: Yevgeny Bauer

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Yevgeny Bauer

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Yevgeny Bauer

A provincial landowner, no longer a young man, is hopelessly attracted to a beautiful young girl at sunset. Realizing the futility of this novel, the hero returns to his empty house with , experiencing the collapse of his hopes.

Dir: Yevgeny Bauer

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

A grief-stricken ballerina becomes the obsession of an increasingly unhinged artist.

Dir: Yevgeny Bauer

The astute Rascol Venkov convinces young cardsharp Roger Brémond to ally with him and together loot Parisian high society cheating in casinos.

Dir: Yevgeny Bauer

In order to allow another servant to go home to be with her children, Nastya agrees to serve in her place, as a maid in the household in which Nastya's grandfather is a porter. Soon afterwards, the woman who owns the house goes on a trip, leaving her son Pavel at home. Pavel is engaged to Ellen, but Ellen flirts openly with other men. Nastya and the servants quickly realize that Ellen is having an ongoing romantic affair with Baron von Rehren. This puts the servants, and especially the sensitive Nastya, in a painfully uncomfortable position.