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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 983

The Girl from the Street

191438 minRussia

Synopsis

The daughter of a poor laundress enters a relationship with a wealthy young man. Their romance offers an escape from her circumstances, but affection and ambition do not remain in balance. Her eventual rejection of him brings the difference between their expectations to a tragic conclusion.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 37:45
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 · дореволюционный фильм · Public domain

Cast

Elena P. Smirnova

Nina Kozlyaninova

Mikhail Salarov

Arseny Bibikov

Emma Bauer

Leonid Iost

DirectorsYevgeni Bauer

Reception and legacy

Contemporary reviewers praised the film's staging and Elena Smirnova's performance. Notices also singled out Emma Bauer's dance, an example of the attention paid to expressive movement in Yevgeni Bauer's silent dramas.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 15, 2026.

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