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Sandra Milovanoff
Sandra Milovanoff (born Alexandrine Aleksejevna Milovanova, 23 June 1892 – 8 May 1957), also known as Sandra Milovanov, was a Russian-French actress known for her roles in French cinema during the silent era.McGerr p. 222 Biography Alexandrine Aleksejevna Milovanova was born on 23 June 1892 into a bourgeois family, the daughter of Aleksej Milovanov and Marija Milovanova (née Smirnova). Milovanova attended the Tchiszakoff Dance School in St. Petersburg from 1900 to 1908. She became a member of Anna Pavlova's dance troupe, and, two years later, she became a part of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and toured across Europe. While performing in London, World War I broke out, and the company found themselves stranded there. In 1916, Milovanova returned to Russia, and was hired at the Nicholas II Theater. The October Revolution forced Milovanova to flee from Russia to Monte Carlo, where she planned to continue her work in the Ballets Russes. Instead, director René Navarre took n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the List of Russian monarchs, Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighbouring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing dynasty, Qing China. It also held colonies in North America between 1799 and 1867. Covering an area of approximately , it remains the list of largest empires, third-largest empire in history, surpassed only by the British Empire and the Mongol Empire; it ruled over a population of 125.6 million people per the Russian Empire Census, 1897 Russian census, which was the only census carried out during the entire imperial period. Owing to its geographic extent across three continents at its peak, it featured great ethnic, linguistic, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom Of The Moulin Rouge
''The Phantom of the Moulin Rouge'' (French: ''Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge'') is a 1925 French silent comedy fantasy film (made in 1924), directed by René Clair and starring Albert Préjean, Sandra Milovanoff and Paul Ollivier. It was based on a novel by Walter Schlee. The film's sets were designed by Robert Gys. Plot Julien Boissel is engaged to marry Yvonne, but her diplomat father is against it. Her father is being blackmailed by a corrupt newspaper publisher named Gauthier, who states he will surrender the incriminating evidence he has if the old man will allow him to marry Yvonne. To save her father from a scandal, Yvonne agrees to marry the blackmailer. A depressed Julien encounters a mesmerist named Dr. Window at the famed Moulin-Rouge nightclub, and he allows the doctor to experiment on him with his mesmeric powers. Julien's spirit is freed from his corporeal body and he goes on a mischievous spree around Paris, causing a string of humorous and frightening occurrences. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocaste (film)
''Jocaste'' is a 1925 French silent drama film directed by Gaston Ravel and starring Thomy Bourdelle, Claude Mérelle and Sandra Milovanoff.Krautz p.284 Cast * Thomy Bourdelle as Dr. René Longuemarre * Claude Mérelle as Jocaste * Sandra Milovanoff as Hélène Haviland * Gabriel Signoret as Martin Haviland * Abel Tarride as Fellaire de Sizac * Henri Fabert as Dr. Groult * Jean Forest as Georges Haviland * Simone Mareuil Simone Mareuil (; 25 August 1903 – 24 October 1954) was a French actress best known for appearing in the surrealist film '' Un Chien Andalou''. Born Marie Louise Simone Vacher in Périgueux, Dordogne, she appeared in a number of films, most n ... as Maîtresse de Fellaire de Sizac References Bibliography * Alfred Krautz. ''International directory of cinematographers, set- and costume designers in film, Volume 4''. Saur, 1984. External links * 1925 films Films directed by Gaston Ravel French silent films French black-and-white films Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Judgment (1945 Film)
''The Last Judgment'' (French: ''Le jugement dernier'') is a 1945 French drama film by René Chanas starring Raymond Bussières, Jean Davy and Jean Desailly. It is set during the Second World War in a German-occupied country in Central Europe. It recorded admissions in France of 1,468,085. at Box Office Story. Retrieved 11 March 2021. Main cast * as Kroum * as Stefan * |
Charles Vanel
Charles-Marie Vanel (21 August 1892 – 15 April 1989) was a French actor and director. During his 76-year film career, which began in 1912, he appeared in more than 200 films and worked with many prominent directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Jacques Feyder, and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's ''The Wages of Fear'' for which he received a Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953. Biography Early life Charles-Marie Vanel was born in Rennes in Brittany. He came from a seafaring family and his parents were traders who moved to Paris when he was twelve years old. He was expelled from all the schools he attended. He tried to enlist in the navy, but was rejected due to his poor eyesight. In 1908, he began to perform in the theater, appearing in ''Hamlet''. His first film was the 1912 ''Jim Crow'' directed by Robert Péguy. He was mobilized for the First World War in July 1915, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dans La Nuit (film)
''Dans la nuit'' (English: ''In the Night'') is a 1929 French silent film by Charles Vanel. The film is a macabre drama about a disfigured worker who wears a mask to hide his face from his unfaithful wife. The producers imposed a happy ending on the film. Louis Sclavis Louis Sclavis (born 2 February 1953) is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation and contemporary classical. Life ... recorded a jazz soundtrack album ''Dans la nuit'' for ECM in 2002. Plot In a small mining town, a couple gets married, attending a celebration in town before returning home for the night. Months later, the husband is injured because of an explosion at the pit where he works. He survives but is left with disfiguring scars on his face, which he covers with a mask. The wife falls for another man, and the two form a plan to run away together. At the last minute, the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaf Molander
Gustaf Harald August Molander (18 November 1888 – 19 June 1973) was a Swedish actor and film director. His parents were director Harald Molander, Sr. (1858–1900) and singer and actress Lydia Molander, ''née'' Wessler, and his brother was the director Olof Molander (1892–1966). He was the father of director and producer Harald Molander from his first marriage to actress Karin Molander and father to actor Jan Molander from his second marriage to Elsa Fahlberg (1892–1977). Gustaf Molander was born in Helsingfors (now Helsinki) in the Grand Duchy of Finland (in the Russian Empire), where his father was working at the Swedish Theatre. He studied in the school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm 1907–1909, acted at the Swedish theatre in Helsingfors 1909–1913, and then at the Royal Dramatic Theatre from 1913 to 1926. The last years there he headed the school; his students included Greta Garbo. Molander wrote several screenplays for Victor Sjöström and Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Krauss
Werner Johannes Krauss (''Krauß'' in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film '' Jud Süß'' and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure. Early life Krauss was born at the parsonage of Gestungshausen bei Sonnefeld in Upper Franconia, where his grandfather was a Protestant pastor. He spent his childhood in Breslau and from 1901 attended the teacher's college at Kreuzburg. After it became known that he worked as an extra at the Breslau Lobe-Theater, he was suspended from classes and decided to join a travelling theatre company. Acting career In 1903 he debuted at the Guben municipal theatre. Although never trained as an actor, he continued to play in Magdeburg, in Bromberg at the Theater Aachen, in Nuremberg and in Munich. By the agency of Alexander Moissi, in 1913 he met the theatre direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcella Albani
Marcella Albani (born Ida Fidalma Angela Maranca; 7 December 1899 – 11 May 1959), was an Italian actress and writer. Although largely forgotten today, Albani was an idol of European cinema in the 1920s, and appeared in 50 films between 1919 and 1936 in 5 different countries. Biography Ida Fidalma Angela Maranca was born on 7 December 1899 (some sources say 11 December 1899) to Ezelino Maranca and Adele Maranca (née Masini). She had one sister, Ione Maranca.https://www.myheritage.com/names/ida_maranca Shortly after completing her exams at school, Maranca was discovered by the actor, director, and screenwriter Guido Parisch. Maranca took on the stage name Marcella Albani and she made her film debut in ''L'amplesso della morte'' (1919), directed by Parisch. Parisch would go on to direct most of Albani's early filmography. In 1923, Albani and Parisch traveled to Berlin, and Albani made her German film debut in ''Im Rausch der Leidenschaft'' (1923), which she also produced, follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Make Up (1927 Film)
''Make Up'' (german: Da hält die Welt den Atem an) is a 1927 German silent film directed by Felix Basch and starring Marcella Albani, Sandra Milovanoff, and Werner Krauss. The film's art direction was by Alfred Junge and Gustav A. Knauer Gustav A. Knauer (1886–1950) was a German art director.Gemünden p.171 He designed the sets of more than a hundred films during his career. Selected filmography * '' The White Roses of Ravensberg'' (1919) * '' The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) .... Cast External links * 1927 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Felix Basch German silent feature films German black-and-white films 1920s German-language films {{Germany-silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Epstein
Jean Epstein (; 25 March 1897 – 2 April 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's '' The Fall of the House of Usher'', he directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He is often associated with French Impressionist Cinema and the concept of ''photogénie''. Life and career Epstein was born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (then a part of Russian Empire) to a French-Jewish father and Polish mother. After his father died in 1908, the family relocated to Switzerland, where Epstein remained until beginning medical school at the University of Lyon in France. While in Lyon, Epstein served as a secretary and translator for Auguste Lumière, considered one of the founders of cinema. Epstein started directing his own films in 1922 with ''Pasteur'', followed by ''L'Auberge rouge'' and '' Coeur f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauprat (film)
''Mauprat'' is a 1926 French silent drama film directed by Jean Epstein, based on the eponymous novel by George Sand. Luis Buñuel, who had enrolled in Epstein's acting school, was the production assistant and had a small acting role in the film. Cast * Sandra Milovanoff – Edmée de Mauprat * Maurice Schutz – Tristan de Mauprat / Hubert de Mauprat * Nino Constantini – Bernard de Mauprat * René Ferté – Monsieur de La Marche * Alex Allin – Marcasse * Halma – Jean de Mauprat * Alexej Bondireff * Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and ... – Monk / Guardsman References External links * Review by the entertainment website ''Avoir Alire'' French silent feature films French black-and-white films 1920s historical drama films Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
