Ludzie bez jutra

1921 DramaRomance 83 minutes Directed by Aleksander Hertz

About Ludzie bez jutra

The film follows the affair of the actress Maria Wisnowska and the Russian officer Aleksandr Bartenev. Halina Bruczówna and Józef Węgrzyn lead the billed cast. English titles include People with no Tomorrow, At the Time of the Czars, and The Bartenieff Affair.

Cast & crew

More about Ludzie bez jutra

Aleksander Hertz directed. Wikidata times it at 83 minutes. It was treated as lost for almost a hundred years and was found again in Germany in 2015. Paweł Owerłło, Iza Kozłowska, Maria Hryniewicz, and Czesław Knapczyński are on the catalog cast. A Commons file is labeled 1919.

Themes

  • An actress and a Russian officer
  • A case from life
  • A print found in 2015
  • Maria Wisnowska
  • Bartenev
  • Hertz
  • Halina Bruczówna
  • Poland

Preservation

Thought lost for nearly a century. Rediscovered in Germany in 2015. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • The story uses the Wisnowska–Bartenev affair, a real case.
  • The rediscovery was in Germany in 2015.
  • The Commons copy is not a lost-film notice.

Scenes

  • The affair between the actress and the officer is the spine of the picture.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Ludzie bez jutra)