After Death (, Pósle smérti, "After death") is a 1915 Russian film directed by Yevgeni Bauer. It is based on the novella Klara Milich by Ivan Turgenev.В Доме кино объединят старый фильм и новую музыкуАнонс событий во Владивостоке на 27 ноябряСезон российских и советских архивных фильмов начала ХХ века стартовал в ЛондонеВ Лондоне стартовал сезон российских и советских архивных фильмов After the October Revolution, the Cinema Committee had the film's title changed to Klara Milich to associate it more with Turgenev, as they did not approve of Bauer's significant departures from the original text.
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 "По́сле сме́рти (1915)" Full Cast & Crew
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
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/