“This Russian-made picture (distributed in the U.S. by Pathe) is typically gloomy. Prima donna Mary Mar (N.A. Lesienko) is surrounded by admirers. But a poet, Sergius (Ivan Mozukin) wants to be more to her and he proposes. So they marry, and she becomes involved in charity activities. On one of her rounds, she contracts smallpox and is quarantined. Even Sergius cannot enter the house. During her illness another opera star becomes the favorite in her stead. Mary’s face becomes horribly disfigured as a result of the smallpox and she has to auction off her belongings to pay her creditors. Finally Sergius returns. Mary is wearing a veil, and when he lifts it, he is disgusted by the sight of her. So she leaves him and becomes a beggar in the streets, while he goes to his studio and kills himself by drug overdose”
by ~ Janiss Garza, Rovi

The.Beggar.Woman.1916.SATRip-AVC by Dmitrio7197.mkv

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Language(s):Russian Intertitles
Subtitles:English

The post Yakov Protazanov – Nishchaya AKA The Beggar Woman (1916) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali, a captive princess held prisoner and coveted by the Grand Khan. Fleeing the country, he takes refuge in Paris and his presentability allows him to be hired as an actor by a French film company. The trouble is that Anna, the star of the movie, is attracted to him. Which displeases banker Morel, the producer and Anna’s lover…

The.Lion.of.the.Moguls.1924.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Language(s):French Intertitles
Subtitles:English

The post Jean Epstein – Le lion des Mogols AKA The Lion of the Moguls (1924) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Blackhawk Films® Collection, Lobster Films and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (Pordenone, Italy) is honored to present this newly restored edition Casanova (1927), with a new orchestral score by Günter A. Buchwald, performed by the San Marco Orchestra.

The iconic French historical drama Casanova, directed by Alexandre Volkoff, and set in 1760s Venice, stars renowned silent film actor Ivan Mosjoukine as the famous philanderer Giacomo Casanova in a flamboyant spectacle of romance, comedy, and intrigue. Shot on location in the Austrian Alps and in Venice, Casanova portrays its dashing central player enjoying a sumptuous and flirtatious existence, until his precarious behavior alerts his rivals and forces him into a life-or-death scenario. Produced by Films Albatros, the film also features Diana Karenne, Suzanne Bianchetti and Rudolf Klein-Rogge.

This brand-new dual-disc Blu-ray Disc/DVD edition is made possible thanks to the tremendous efforts of the Cinémathèque française. It utilizes a safety fine grain of Renée Lichtig’s restoration of the film struck from the nitrate camera negative and an original diacetate stencil-colored reel in the collections of la Cinémathèque française, Paris.

3.57GB | 2h 40m | 768×576 | mkv

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Subtitles:English, Italian

The post Alexandre Volkoff – Casanova (1927) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Russian stage star Ivan Mosjoukine plays the title role in this far-from-accurate biopic of legendary Italian lover Casanova. The main plot concerns itself with political intrigue, as Casanova travels from Venice to Russia and back again on a variety of “secret missions.” This doesn’t prevent the amorous hero from enjoying the favors of several delectable females. Even Russia’s Catherine the Great (Suzanne Bianchetti) briefly falls under Casanova’s spell. But when all is said and done, it is the lovely Therese (Jenny Jugo) who captures the protagonist’s heart. Highlights include the spectacular Carnival of Venice sequence and the splendiferous scenes within the palace walls of Czarina Catherine. Casanova was truly an international production: It was filmed in France but financed and written by Germans, while its star and director were Russians. The film ran into some curious censorship troubles in the U.S., and as result it was retitled Prince of Adventurers, with the main character rechristened as “Roberto Ferrara”! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

It begins with a dissolve-montage of Venice, carefully composed views superimposed over a ring of dancing girls, which dissolves to a close-up of Casanova (Mosjoukine) himself. Later, in a scene to stand with the very best in silent cinema, a ring of dancing girls strip, kicking out their clothes, before an audience of noblemen. We see the girl’s bodies in silhouette behind an elaborately carved screen under which the household servants peer. The chiarscuro lighting takes one breath away. Later still, exiled from Venice for practicing the Black Arts and seducing a daughter of one of the Council of Ten (brilliantly lit close-ups), Casanova, bedding down at an inn, removes his beauty spots and, approaching a bedside cross, waves away a ring of women that represent his thoughts. He’s accompanied on his adventure by a blacked up servant boy (used in a comic role reversal with a princess) and returns to Venice as a strolling player who looks like Boy George.
The carnival-at-night sequence, all barges and fireworks and harlequins, is in colour.

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English intertitles

The post Alexandre Volkoff – Casanova [English intertitles] (1927) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The first film Epstein made for Albatros stars Ivan Mosjoukine as a Mogul prince in exile. After getting caught up in such vices of the Occident as drinking, movies and women, the prince eventually returns to his Khanate and to his waiting bride.

967MB | 1h 31mn | 640×480 | avi

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Subtitles:English

The post Jean Epstein – Le lion des Mogols (1924) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This is a biopic of the 19th Century actor, Edmund Kean.

You may remember him for his famous last words: “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.”

Made some 90 years after his death, the film tells of the greatest actor of his time, a man toasted as the greatest actor of all time.

Great though he may have been on the stage, his personal life was a wreck.

He was hounded by creditors, had a problem with alcohol, and to make matters worse, had fallen in love with the wife of an ambassador.
Troubled by the fact that he loves, and is loved, by someone he cannot have, he drowns his troubles in drink, seeming to have a grand time dancing till all hours of the night while really in terrible pain.

He’s shown to be a kind man too, however, putting on a benefit performance of Hamlet in order to help some traveling thespians who have fallen on hard times.

Unbeknownst to the popular actor, this performance, with the object of his affection as well as her husband in the audience, will have dramatic consequences on his life.

1.98GB | 2h 21mn | 640×480 | avi

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Subtitles:English Intertitles (idx/sub)

The post Alexandre Volkoff – Kean (141-minute version) (1924) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

One of the few pre-Revolution Russian feature films to survive, Father Sergius is an elaborate picturization of a Tolstoy novel. Ivan Mozzhukin plays a young, libertine officer who thinks nothing of committing casual sins while in the service of the Czar. He comes to regret his misdeeds as he grows older, his past debaucheries manifesting themselves in his wizened face and desiccated body. He wanders up and down the countryside, searching for redemption. Director Feodor Protazanov emphasized the high and low points of Mozhukin’s life by filming in the actual palaces and private clubs described by Tolstoy in his novel. The overall theme of corruption in high places automatically resulted in Father Sergius being banned by the Czarist censors, though the film found a more receptive audience once the government passed into the hands of the revolutionaries. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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