Romance with Double-Bass is a Russian silent comedy short film released in 1911.Jay Leyda. Kino: A History of The Russian and Soviet Film. Princeton University Press, p. 276 Directed by Kai Hanson, it is based on the 1886 short story of the same name by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov.Bowker's Complete Video Directory, Volume 2, p. 550 (1993)Beumers, Birgit. A History of Russian Cinema, p. 14 (2009) The film was released seven years after his death, the time Chekhov thought people would stop reading his work.
This is the second film adaptation of Chekhov's writings and the first that has been preserved — the 1909 adaptation of Surgery by Pyotr Chardynin is considered to be lost.edited by Evgeny Dobrenko, Marina Balina (2011). The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 235
Cast Nikolai Vasilyev as a musician Vera Gorskaya as knyazna Bibulova
Critical reception The reviewer of the Sine-Phono journal № 2 (1911) called it "a movie with wonderful acting and amazingly clear and juicy photography and beautiful locations where the action takes place". He wrote that the filmmakers had shown all respect that Anton Chekhov's name deserved.Ludmila Saraskina (2018). Literary Classics In the Temptation of Screen Adaptations. Moscow: Progress-Traditsia, p. 413
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External links Romance with a Double Bass, view online at filmannex.com