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Twilight of a Woman's Soul

191349 minRussia

Synopsis

Vera turns away from the pleasures of wealthy society and begins helping people in poverty. A man exploits her generosity to assault her, leaving a trauma she struggles to reveal to the prince who wants to marry her. When his response destroys their relationship, she seeks an independent life on the stage, beyond the identity he has imposed on her.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 48:38
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

Nina Chernova

A. Ugryumov

V. Demert

V. Brianski

DirectorsYevgeni Bauer

Historical context

Bauer places the story's violence and emotional isolation inside elaborately arranged interiors. Vera's later success as a performer gives the drama a further subject: a woman's ability to build a life after the failure of a supposedly protective marriage.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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