Mirages
About Mirages
Marianna, from a poor family, is hired to read to the reclusive millionaire Dymov. He keeps his playboy son away from her. She has a fiancé, Sergei. The son courts her. When the old man dies she inherits money, and the son draws her off Sergei with the promise of a rich life. She writes her mother that a gray life with Sergei would be unbearable, leaves her family, and becomes the son's mistress. He tires of her. She learns he will not marry her.
Cast & crew
More about Mirages
Pyotr Chardynin directed this 1916 Russian film from a novel by Lidiya Charskaya. Listings name Andrey Gromov, Arseniy Bibikov, Aleksandr Kheruvimov, Vitold Polonsky, Olga Rakhmanova, and Tamara Gedevanova. One plot summary gives 37 minutes.
Themes
Notes
- Dymov the father hires her as a reader and tries to keep his son off her.
- The inheritance comes when the old man dies.
- The letter to her mother says the dull life with Sergei would be unbearable.
- The title is the rich life that does not include a marriage.
Scenes
- The old man dies and Marianna inherits.
- The son tires of her and will not marry.
Influenced by
- Lidiya Charskaya's novel
