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The 1002nd Ruse

191518 minRussia
Comedy

Synopsis

A wife gives her husband enough drink to send him to sleep, then meets her lover. His unexpected awakening forces her to improvise an explanation and hide the visitor in a cupboard. One deception creates the need for another as the husband tries to understand the commotion around him.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
17:37
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · дореволюционное видео · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsYevgeni Bauer

Historical context

Yevgeni Bauer uses the familiar comic machinery of a secret lover, a hiding place and a suspicious spouse. The short shows a lighter side of a filmmaker more often associated with elaborate dramas.

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