The Peasants' Lot
About The Peasants' Lot
Young peasants Pyotr (Ivan Mozzhukhin) and Masha (Aleksandra Goncharova) mean to marry. Her house burns, and his parents then oppose the match. Masha goes to the city and works as a maid in a rich house. She comes back after a death in the family and finds that Pyotr has married someone else. She marries a man she does not love. Pyotr, still in love with her, hurries to the wedding.
Cast & crew
More about The Peasants' Lot
Vasily Goncharov directed. Arseny Bibikov wrote the scenario and also plays Maxim. Louis Forestier was the cinematographer. Alexander Khanzhonkov produced it. The premiere is dated 13 November 1912 Old Style (26 November New Style). It was issued in three parts, about 875 meters.
Themes
Background
A Khanzhonkov drama from the last years of the Russian Empire, set between a village household and domestic service in the city.
Making
Khanzhonkov's 1912 production uses Mozzhukhin, already a leading player in Russian films, as the village suitor whose parents break the match after the fire.
Look
Louis Forestier photographed the film.
Music
Silent. The surviving copy is described as lacking its intertitles.
Preservation
A print survives without intertitles and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Pyotr Chardynin plays Pyotr's father. Lidiya Tridenskaya is also in the cast.
- A Russian encyclopedia note says the surviving print has no intertitles.
- The Wikimedia Commons copy runs 29 minutes 59 seconds.
- Daydreams Museum lists the picture as a village drama in three parts from the Khanzhonkov company.
Scenes
- Masha returns from the city and learns that Pyotr has already married.
- Pyotr rushes to the wedding after she marries someone else.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
