The Dying Swan
About The Dying Swan
Gizella, played by Vera Karalli, cannot speak and dances, and a young man drops her for someone else. She writes to her father that she will die if she stays, and he gets her a trial that turns her Dying Swan into a sensation. Count Valeriy Glinskiy, fixed on death, begs to paint her at the moment the swan dies. Yevgeni Bauer directed from a script by Zoya Barantsevich.
Cast & crew
More about The Dying Swan
Wikidata lists 49 minutes and the year 1917, and names no cinematographer. Aleksandr Kheruvimov, Vitold Polonsky, Andrej Gromov, and Ivane Perestiani are in the English cast list.
Themes
Notes
- Gizella's appeal to her father is in writing, because she does not speak.
- The company takes her on reluctantly.
- Glinskiy calls her the muse for a picture of perfect peace in death.
- The English plot stops at the request to pose.
Scenes
- Glinskiy asks to paint Gizella in the instant the swan dies.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Dying Swan (1917).webm)
