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The Queen of Spades (Russian: Пиковая дама, translit. Pikovaya dama) is a 1916 film adaptation of the Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name, noted for high producer and operator culture, with the psychological depth of actor's game, first of all of Ivan Mosjoukine. It was one of the best pre-revolutionary films. The film was the second production (first was the silent film adaptation of the Pyotr Tchaikovsky opera) of mystical novel of Aleksandr Pushkin, named by critics as "monumental". Director used the receptions, unexpected for those times, like retrospection, visions of heroes (as if the prototypes of the stream of consciousness), the combination shot.
Original Release
04/01/1916
US Release
11/18/1917
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tamara Duvan | The Countess as a young woman |
Ivan Mozzhukhin | Hermann |
Vera Orlova | Lizaveta |
Nikolai Panov | Count of Saint-Germain |
Polycarpe Pavloff | The Count |
Yelizaveta Shebueva | The Countess |
Georg Asagaroff |
Directors
Writers
Yakov Protazanov, Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Otsep
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tamara Duvan | The Countess as a young woman |
Ivan Mozzhukhin | Hermann |
Vera Orlova | Lizaveta |
Nikolai Panov | Count of Saint-Germain |
Polycarpe Pavloff | The Count |
Yelizaveta Shebueva | The Countess |
Georg Asagaroff |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Joseph N. Ermolieff | Producer |