Mad Love: Three Films by Evgenii Bauer
- Synopsis
- Three films made by the Russian pioneer Evgenii Bauer, highlighting his preoccupation with doomed love and death as well as his creative use of light and mastery of camera movement. He was one of Russia’s leading theatre designers and it was as a set designer that he first entered films, working for the producer Aleksandr Drankov. In a career spanning only four years, until his premature death in 1917, he made over 80 films, of which more than 20 survive. Suppressed after the Revolution, his films re-emerged in the late 1980s to strong critical interest.
A specially commissioned new music score accompanies each film - by Laura Rossi (for TWILIGHT OF A WOMAN’S SOUL); Nicholas Brown (for AFTER DEATH); and Joby Talbot (for THE DYING SWAN). Also included is a video essay by Russian film historian Yuri Tsivian. - Country
- Russian Federation
- Year of release
- 2002
- Year of production
- 1913-1916
- Subjects
- Media studies
- Keywords
- cinema - Russia; silent films
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Price
- £19.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 182 min
- Year
- 2002
- Type
- VHS
- Format
- PAL
- Price
- £15.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 182 min
- Year
- 2002
Sections
- Title
- Twilight of a woman’s soul
- Synopsis
- Bauer’s first surviving film, made in 1913, soon after the start of his career as a director. It already shows his masterful use of deep-focus photography.
- Duration
- 49 mins
- Technical information
- Silent
- Title
- After death
- Synopsis
- Made in 1915 and adapted from Turgenev’s story Klara Milich. Imbued with one of Bauer’s favourite themes - the psychological hold of the dead over the living. Includes some innovative camera movements.
- Duration
- 46 mins
- Technical information
- Silent
- Title
- Dying swan, The
- Synopsis
- One of Bauer’s last films before the February revolution. Taken from a novel by Zoia Barantevich about an artist striving to depict death on his canvas. Includes an imaginitive handling of a dream sequence in which the heroine, a mute dancer, sees herself led by a forbidding, nun-like figure to a cell where disembodied hands clutch at her from the darkness.
- Duration
- 49 mins
- Technical information
- Silent
Related
- Name
BFI Video
- video.films@bfi.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7957 8957
- Fax
- 020 7957 8968
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
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