After Death (, Pósle smérti, "After death") is a 1915 Russian film directed by Yevgeni Bauer. It is based on the novella Klara Milich by Ivan Turgenev. After the October Revolution, the Cinema Committee had the film's title changed to Klara Milich to associate it more with Turgenev, as they did not approve of Bauer's significant departures from the original text.
Plot
The film is based on the novella Klara Milich (1883) by Ivan Turgenev.
"Reclusive young man Andrei is reluctantly persuaded out to social events by his friend Tsenin, and encounters the beautiful actress Zoia. The two meet briefly but then he does not see her for months. He is then shocked to learn that she has collapsed and died, and he becomes morbidly and madly obsessed with her."
Starring
- Vitold Polonsky â Andrei Bagrov
- Olga Rakhmanova â Kapitolana Markovna, Andrei's aunt
- Vera Karalli â Zoia Kadmina
- Mariya Khalatova â Zoia's mother (as M. Khalatova)
- Tamara Gedevanova â Zoia's sister
- Marfa Kassatskaia â Princess Tarskaia
- Georg Asagaroff â Tsenin, Andrei's friend
References
Further reading
- Armstrong, Richard, Mourning Films: A Critical Study of Loss and Grieving in Cinema, Jefferson: McFarland 2012.
- Boele, Otto. "After Death, the Movie (1915) â Ivan Turgenev, Evgenii Bauer and the Aesthetics of Morbidity". Rodopi: 2010. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/16319
- Drubek, Natascha. Russisches Licht. Von der Ikone zum frühen sowjetischen Kino, Wien â Köln â Weimar: Böhlau 2012.
- Drubek-Meyer, Natascha "Der Film als Leben nach dem Tode (Evgenij BauÃÂrs Posle smerti, 1915)". Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 60, 2007, pp. 457âÂÂ273.
External links
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PomQyFUMJBc â with the score by Michael Brown (performed by Triptych).
- https://reflect.ucl.ac.uk/2019-sers0014-russiancinemahistoryideologysociety/2019/04/11/example-3/
- https://silentsplease.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/after-death/