Boyar Orsha
About Boyar Orsha
Pyotr Chardynin plays the boyar Orsha in a short adaptation of Mikhail Lermontov's poem. Orsha leaves the service of Ivan the Terrible.
Cast & crew
More about Boyar Orsha
Chardynin directed, wrote, and played Orsha. Aleksandr Khanzhonkov produced it. Vladimir Siversen photographed it. The Khanzhonkov company released the 9-minute film in 1909. The Russian title is Боярин Орша.
Themes
Background
Lermontov's poem was standard reading in Russia. Khanzhonkov's 1909 list turned several of those poems into short acted films.
Making
Chardynin staged the poem as a one-reel costume picture for Khanzhonkov and took the title role himself.
Look
Vladimir Siversen photographed the 9-minute costume reel.
Notes
- The source is Lermontov's narrative poem Boyarin Orsha.
- Chardynin is both the director and the boyar.
- Siversen is the cameraman on the Khanzhonkov production.
- At nine minutes the film can only sketch the poem.
- Khanzhonkov was the producer-exhibitor who backed Chardynin's early costume subjects.
Scenes
- Orsha quits Ivan the Terrible's service.
Influenced by
- Mikhail Lermontov's poem Boyarin Orsha
