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Spectre Haunts Europe

A SPECTRE HAUNTS EUROPE / PRIZRAK BRODIT PO YEVROPE
Series: From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema [Aug 11 – 24 2006]
Director: Vladimir Gardin, Country: USSR, Release: 1922, Runtime: 94

The emperor of an imaginary nation goes for a stroll and meets a shepherdess. He finds love, but he also finds torment at the hands of those he’s oppressed. The title may come from the opening line of “The Communist Manifesto,” but Spectre is in fact one of the earliest adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, preceded only by Fritz Lang and Otto Riepert’s The Plague in Florence three years earlier. This beautifully atmospheric film was shot in Crimean locations by the great cameraman Boris Savalyev, who would later shoot Dovzhenko’s Zvenigora. With Vasili Kovrigin, co-star of Deserter by Pudovkin.
Silent with live piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin

Please Note: Due to print unavailability, we have had to cancel the screening of this film. We apologize for any inconvenience.



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