After Death
About After Death
Reclusive Andrei Bagrov, pushed into society by his friend Tsenin, meets the actress Zoia Kadmina. They see each other briefly. Months later he learns she has collapsed and died. He becomes obsessed with her. Yevgeni Bauer directed the Khanzhonkov film from Ivan Turgenev's 1883 novella Klara Milich.
Cast & crew
More about After Death
Bauer is also the writer on Wikidata. Vitold Polonsky plays Andrei and Vera Karalli plays Zoia. Wikidata lists 46 minutes and the year 1915, and after the October Revolution the Cinema Committee retitled the film Klara Milich because it objected to Bauer's departures from Turgenev.
Themes
Background
The Cinema Committee's new title was meant to tie the picture more tightly to Turgenev than Bauer's cut had done.
Music
Wikidata credits Neil Brand with music. The 1915 film was silent.
Notes
- Olga Rakhmanova plays Andrei's aunt Kapitolana Markovna.
- Mariya Khalatova plays Zoia's mother and Tamara Gedevanova her sister.
- Georg Asagaroff plays Tsenin.
- Otto Boele's 2010 essay treats the film as an aesthetics of morbidity, and Richard Armstrong discusses it in Mourning Films (2012).
Scenes
- Andrei learns, months after one short meeting, that Zoia has collapsed and died.
Influenced by
- Ivan Turgenev's novella Klara Milich (1883)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (After Death (1915).webm)
