They crowned by Satan | Venchal ih Satana
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| Year | 1917 | |
| Country | Russia | |
| Director | Vyacheslav Viskovskij | |
| Premiere date (Russia) | December 21, 1917 | |
| Actors | V. Dal'skaya Konstantin Hohlov Petr Leont'ev Andrej Morozov N. Stal Varvara Yanova | |
| Rating | 5.00 / 10 [votes: 4] |
Elena is in love with the prince Basargin, the friend of his childhood Ivnev, and each time the object of her passion to bring the girl to help fortuneteller Sybil and Satan himself behind her actions.
Of the fifteen hundred meters survived only 23 minutes, and then without any text, so to form an impression of the story, not knowing it in advance, rather difficult. The plot of the film absurd.
ReplyDeleteFortuneteller helps Elena bewitch favorite, which gives preference to the other, and Satan is their crowning. Later Elena love another, and again thanks to spell fortuneteller, a former lover dies, and Elena is married to another. But it hurts the ghost of the deceased and she could not stand, dies.
Even knowing the plot, the film is difficult to understand because it is composed of separate fragments, which are often difficult soootnesti one another. Unfortunately, there are no passages of Satan himself, or "unnecessary wild" murder scene maid or creepy ghost or death of Helen, but there are a lot of mystical moments, for example, the groom with a skull instead of a face.
Barbarians game Yanovoy (who plays Elena) is traditional for Russian pre-revolutionary films: dramatic, theatrical, salon. Other game does not rise above the average.
The main drawback of the film - completely unnecessary on-screen appearance of Satan. Without him, the movie would come out great, but its appearance in the role of a priest is so absurd that the salon drama turns into a comedy of the absurd.