Romance with a Double Bass
About Romance with a Double Bass
Princess Bibulova goes fishing. Nearby, a musician leaves his companions and goes swimming, and then so does the princess. Thieves on the bank steal both sets of clothes. Kai Hansen directed the Pathé short from Chekhov's 1886 story. Nikolai Vasilyev plays the musician and Vera Gorskaya the princess.
Cast & crew
More about Romance with a Double Bass
Cheslav Sabinsky wrote it and Georges Meyer photographed the 8-minute 1911 Pathé short. It is the second Chekhov film and the first that survives. Chardynin's 1909 Surgery is listed as lost, and Sine-Phono number 2 (1911) praised the acting, the photography, and the locations.
Themes
Reviews
The reviewer in Sine-Phono no. 2 (1911) called it a movie with wonderful acting and amazingly clear and juicy photography, and said the filmmakers had shown the respect Chekhov's name deserved.
Look
Georges Meyer photographed the Pathé short on locations the Sine-Phono reviewer singled out.
Preservation
Wikipedia calls it the earliest surviving film from Chekhov's writing. The 1909 Surgery adaptation is treated as lost.
Notes
- The English page says the release came seven years after Chekhov's death, the span he thought would end his readership.
- The catalog stops at the stolen clothes and the embarrassment.
- Meyer's photography is the point of the Sine-Phono notice.
- The Commons file uses the 1911 date and the Russian title.
Scenes
- Thieves take the clothes of both swimmers while they are in the river.
Influenced by
- Anton Chekhov's 1886 story Romance with a Double Bass
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1911 Роман с контрабасом.webm)
