After Death (1915 film)

After Death (Russian: По́сле сме́рти, Pósle smérti, "After death") is a 1915 Russian film directed by Yevgeni Bauer.

Plot

The film is based on the novella Klara Milich (1883) by Ivan Turgenev.

"Reclusive young man Andrei is reluctantly persuaded out to social events by his friend Tsenin, and encounters the beautiful actress Zoia. The two meet briefly but then he does not see her for months. He is then shocked to learn that she has collapsed and died, and he becomes morbidly and madly obsessed with her."

Starring

• Vitold Polonsky – Andrei Bagrov
• Olga Rakhmanova – Kapitolana Markovna, Andrei's aunt
• Vera Karalli – Zoia Kadmina
• Mariya Khalatova – Zoia's mother (as M. Khalatova)
• Tamara Gedevanova – Zoia's sister
• Marfa Kassatskaia – Princess Tarskaia
• Georg Asagaroff – Tsenin, Andrei's friend

References

Further reading

• Armstrong, Richard, Mourning Films: A Critical Study of Loss and Grieving in Cinema, Jefferson: McFarland 2012.
• Boele, Otto. "After Death, the Movie (1915) – Ivan Turgenev, Evgenii Bauer and the Aesthetics of Morbidity". Rodopi: 2010. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/16319
• Drubek, Natascha. Russisches Licht. Von der Ikone zum frühen sowjetischen Kino, Wien – Köln – Weimar: Böhlau 2012.
• Drubek-Meyer, Natascha "Der Film als Leben nach dem Tode (Evgenij Bauėrs Posle smerti, 1915)". Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 60, 2007, pp. 457–273.

External links

• After Death at IMDb
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PomQyFUMJBc – with the score by Michael Brown (performed by Triptych).
• https://reflect.ucl.ac.uk/2019-sers0014-russiancinemahistoryideologysociety/2019/04/11/example-3/
• https://silentsplease.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/after-death/