The Last Tango

Name: The Last Tango
Director: Vyacheslav Viskovsky
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1918
Duration: 10 min
Cast: Vera Kholodnaya, Ossip Runitsch, Ivan Khudoleyev, A. Aleksandrov, Vladimir Maksimov

1918 Drama Romance 10 minutes (surviving fragment) Directed by Vyacheslav Viskovsky

About The Last Tango

Joe and Chloe earn their living dancing in nightclubs. Jealous Joe tells her to charm the English tourist Sir Stone so the two of them can rob him, and he says he will kill her if she falls for the man. She warns Stone and leaves with him for Paris. The rich, quiet life starts to bore her. The surviving piece of the film picks up as Joe comes back.

Cast & crew

More about The Last Tango

Vyacheslav Viskovsky directed. Iza Kremer, who sang a Russian version of Emile Deloire and Armand Foucher's song in Odessa, is credited with the writing. Vladimir Siversen was the cameraman. The Russian title is Последнее танго.

Themes

A tango in a nightclub
A plan to rob an English tourist
A flight to Paris
Joe coming back
Vera Kholodnaya
tango
Chloe
Sir Stone
Odessa

Look

Vladimir Siversen photographed the Odessa production.

Preservation

What circulates is a fragment of about 10 minutes from a longer feature.

Notes

Vera Kholodnaya plays Chloe. Ossip Runitsch plays Joe. Ivan Khudoleyev plays Sir Stone. A. Aleksandrov plays the waiter.
It was Kholodnaya's last film. She died of influenza in 1919.
Boris Dralyuk, writing in 2019, gives the original feature as 67 minutes.

Influenced by

Iza Kremer's Russian version of the song Le dernier tango

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (Poslednee tango (1918).webm)