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A 16th Century Russian Wedding

190915 minRussia
Drama

Synopsis

A young nobleman overturns a cart during a chance encounter on the road, meeting a woman who escapes the accident unharmed. At home, his family arranges a marriage to a bride he is not allowed to see beforehand. The wedding ceremony brings the stranger back into his life through a revelation concealed beneath her veil.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
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15:25
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Director: Vasili Goncharov · Public domain

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DirectorsVasili Goncharov

Inspirations

Goncharov draws on Pyotr Sukhonin's play about a Russian wedding at the end of the sixteenth century. Period costume and the rituals of the ceremony give the brief romantic coincidence its historical setting.

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