The Portrait
About The Portrait
A man buys a portrait of an old man, hangs it, and cannot sleep. He moves the picture. The old man then steps out of the frame toward him. Ladislas Starevich directed this Gogol adaptation. The English Wikipedia says 22 minutes survive of a film that ran 45.
Cast & crew
More about The Portrait
Wikidata lists 44 minutes, the year 1915, and the Russian Empire, with Andrey Gromov in the cast and no company. Wikipedia says 22 minutes of a 45-minute film survive, while the catalog says the known fragment is 8 minutes. Ivan Lazarev is the other name on the English cast list.
Themes
Preservation
Wikipedia says 22 minutes survive from a 45-minute film. The catalog describes an 8-minute fragment. The Commons file is labeled a surviving fragment.
Notes
- The Wikimedia file name calls the copy a surviving fragment.
- Gogol's story The Portrait is the Wikidata source.
- The English plot breaks off as the old man comes out of the picture.
- No cinematographer is listed on Wikidata.
Scenes
- The old man steps out of the portrait toward the man who could not sleep under it.
Influenced by
- Nikolai Gogol's story The Portrait
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Портрет. (1915). Сохранившийся фрагмент.webm)
