Vadim
About Vadim
The landowner Palitsyn, played by Pyotr Chardynin, wins a long lawsuit that ruins his neighbor. The neighbor dies and leaves a hunchbacked boy, Vadim, and a three-year-old girl, Olga. Palitsyn takes the girl in. Vadim swears revenge and leaves. Years later Olga, now played by Goncharova, is a beauty, and the old man wants her. Vadim comes back unrecognized and enters the house as a servant. He tells Olga who they are. She agrees to help, then falls in love with Palitsyn's son Yuri and refuses. Vadim goes to Pugachev's camp, meaning to return and destroy the family.
Cast & crew
More about Vadim
Pyotr Chardynin directed and plays Palitsyn. Speransky plays the young Vadim. Goncharova plays the grown Olga. The synopsis places the revenge in the Pugachev rising. Wikidata dates the film 1910. The catalog credits only Chardynin by name among the players.
Themes
Background
Pugachev's rising of 1773-1775 is the camp Vadim joins. The film uses that revolt as the instrument of a private revenge.
Making
Chardynin took the role of the landowner who steals the girl and left the revenge to the returning brother.
Notes
- Palitsyn keeps Olga as a ward so he will not be blamed for the ruined family.
- Vadim returns as a servant and is not recognized.
- Olga switches sides when she falls in love with Yuri, Palitsyn's son.
- The last move in the synopsis is Vadim joining Pugachev.
- Chardynin, who plays the old landowner, was directing and acting in Russian costume films by 1910.
Scenes
- Palitsyn takes the little girl after the lawsuit kills her father.
- Vadim returns unrecognized and tells Olga the truth.
- She chooses Yuri, and Vadim leaves for Pugachev's camp.
