The Robber Brothers
About The Robber Brothers
By the Volga, an older robber tells his gang how he and his brother were thrown out as children after their father drowned. A farmer takes them in. Both love the farmer's daughter, a calf is trampled while the younger brother plays a flute, and a fight ends with the older brother killing the farmer. The brothers escape prison and the chase. The younger dies of thirst, and the older buries him.
Cast & crew
More about The Robber Brothers
Vasily Goncharov directed and wrote the two-reeler for A. Khanzhonkov and Company, from Alexander Pushkin's poem The Robber Brothers. Russian Wikipedia gives 22 minutes. Wikidata gives 20 and names Louis Forestier, while Russian sources also name Aleksandr Ryllo.
Themes
Look
Louis Forestier and Aleksandr Ryllo are the cameramen named for the Khanzhonkov production.
Preservation
A print without titles survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Arseny Bibikov and Ivan Mozzhukhin play the brothers.
- Vasily Stepanov plays the farmer. Dolinina plays his daughter. Aleksandra Goncharova plays his niece.
- The British release title was The Brigand Brothers.
- Silent Era notes that the print survived without intertitles, so the exact 1912 opening day is not fixed.
Scenes
- The older brother starts the tale beside the river.
- A calf is lost while the younger brother plays the flute.
- He buries his brother after the escape.
Influenced by
- Alexander Pushkin's poem The Robber Brothers
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Братья разбойники. (1912).webm)
