Shackled by Film

1918 DramaRomance Directed by Nikandr Turkin

About Shackled by Film

An artist's life changes when a ballerina steps out of a film poster and comes to life. Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote the story and appears in the picture, with Lilya Brik.

Cast & crew

More about Shackled by Film

Nikandr Turkin directed. Yevgeny Slavinsky was the cinematographer. The Russian title is Закованная фильмой. Most of the film is gone.

Themes

  • a poster that moves
  • an artist and a dancer
  • a film about film
  • Mayakovsky
  • Lilya Brik
  • ballerina
  • poster
  • 1918

Look

Yevgeny Slavinsky shot the footage that still exists.

Preservation

Most of the film is lost. Surviving frames have been transferred to Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • Margerita Kibalchich, Aleksandra Rebikova, Georgy Kruchinin, and David Burlyuk are on the catalog cast list.
  • What remains has been gathered as surviving frames.

Scenes

  • The ballerina leaves the poster and enters the artist's rooms.