A Spectre Haunts Europe
About A Spectre Haunts Europe
The ruler of an unnamed European country falls in love with a young shepherdess whose father leads the revolutionaries set on throwing him out. The film says fate has already marked him for the way he has treated his people. Vladimir Gardin directed and Georgi Tasin wrote it. Wikipedia says the plot does not follow Poe's The Masque of the Red Death, the credited source.
Cast & crew
More about A Spectre Haunts Europe
Wikipedia names the producer as VUFKU, while Wikidata lists Dovzhenko Film Studios, 96 minutes, and the catalog year 1923. Boris Zavalev filmed in Crimea and Vladimir Yegorov designed the sets. Wikipedia says many reference books date it 1921 and that the release was 1922, against the 1923 year kept on this record.
Themes
Background
Made in the Ukrainian republic's VUFKU system and shot in Crimea, the story uses a European tyrant and a revolutionary band rather than Poe's masked ball.
Look
Boris Zavalev shot the film on location in Crimea.
Notes
- Zoya Barantsevich, Oleg Frelikh, Evgeniy Gryaznov, and Lidiya are names on the English cast list, which breaks off there.
- Wikipedia calls it one of the few Russian silent horror films, with The Queen of Spades and The Vij.
- A massacre on the Odessa Steps in this film is described as a possible source for the Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin.
- No Commons file is in the catalog.
Scenes
- The ruler falls in love with the shepherdess whose father is organizing the revolt against him.
Influenced by
- Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
Influenced
- Battleship Potemkin
