The Lame Gentleman (Russian: Хромой барин) is a 1929 Soviet silent film directed by Konstantin Eggert.Christie & Taylor p.430
The film's art direction was by .
Plot Based on the short story of the same name by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
Prince Krasnopolski seduces a peasant girl named Sasha. Soon, the aristocrat becomes infatuated with the daughter of the landowner Volkov and abandons Sasha. In despair, the girl throws herself into the river.
The happiness built upon the girl's demise proves to be fragile. Eventually, the prince meets his end at the hands of Sasha's sister.
Cast Mikhail Klimov as Volkov Nikolai Alexandrov L. Cherkes Konstantin Eggert
Boris Gorin-Goryainov
Yelena Maksimova Vera Malinovskaya F. Trubetskoy
Daniil Vvedenskiy Konstantin Zubov
References
Bibliography Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
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