Masterpiece Selection Resonating with the Themes of Nuit de carnava...

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

At the Sorbonne University in Paris, Odette, a young student, is courted by two sympathetic students. She gives in to the advances of the most charming, Jacques, and finds herself pregnant. Maxime, who has obtained nothing from her, immediately offers to become her husband, but she don't want him. Jacques, when he finds out about the situation, finally decides to marry Odette, much to Maxime's disappointment.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

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

1913 Russia: when a sheltered daughter is taken by a banker to a restaurant she doesn't know her father works at, she is saved from being seduced and comforts herself later with the more respectable admiration of her piano teacher.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

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

An adventurer has proclaimed himself Czar of the People and resent the countryside at the head of his horde of bandits.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

Unkwown to the vast majority, Count Patrice is the crown prince of Simenia. One day he sails for the East on his yacht "Bengal" in the company of Christiane, a beautiful princess, in love with him. Chance has it that Patrice sets Anar, an Oriental beauty, free from the harem where she is held captive. Love is born between the two young people, which infuriates Christiane. Mad with jealousy, the vexed woman sets about preventing Patrice and Anar from marrying... by all means fair or foul!

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

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

In 1860s Russia, a young officer is sent on a mission to save his country from invaders.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

In Ferrara, in the sixteenth century, two rich young friends, Muzio and Fabio, a musician and a painter, fall in love with Valeria, one of the city's most striking beauties. Valeria, the daughter of a widowed noblewoman with little money, chooses Fabio and marries him. Muzio, devastated by his bad fortune, goes to Oriental countries and resurfaces a few years later. His new practices make him very mysterious and attractive to Valeria and her heart is soon conquered...

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

Philippe, the order of an old colonel, surprises the wife of his boss in the arms of a young lieutenant. So that he remains silent, she offers herself to him.