''Ludzie bez jutra'' (English: ''People with no Tomorrow'', it was also shown under several English titles, among them ''At the Time of the Czars'' and ''The Bartenieff Affair'')
is a 1921 Polish silent film by director
Aleksander Hertz
Aleksander Hertz (1879–1928) was a Polish film producer and film director, director. Hertz was an influential figure in early Polish cinema, directing films such as the historical ''Countess Walewska (1914 film), Countess Walewska'' in 1914. He ...
. The film was considered
lost for almost a hundred years before being rediscovered in Germany in 2015.
Production
The film has been considered to be among several films made in the 1910 and 1920s which were playing off of anti-Russian feelings in Poland during that time. The film was the last film made by director Aleksander Hertz before
Polish independence from Russia.
Plot
The film is based on the real life ill-starred love affair between Polish actress
Maria Wisnowska and Russian cavalry officer Alexander Bartenev. The affair led to Bartenev eventually killing Wisnowska as part of a suicide pact.
Reception
The film was met with negative reactions upon its release, it became controversial with both government censors and general audiences for portraying the events of the murder realistically. The controversy brought the studio Sfinks into a public scandal.
See also
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Cinema of Poland
The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish films tend to be less commercially available than films from several other European nations.
A ...
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List of rediscovered films
This is a list of rediscovered films that, once thought lost, have since been discovered, in whole or in part. See List of incomplete or partially lost films and List of rediscovered film footage for films that are not wholly lost.
For a fi ...
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List of Polish films before 1930
References
Further reading
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1921 films
Polish silent films
Polish black-and-white films
1920s rediscovered films
Polish romance films
1920s romance films
Rediscovered Polish films
1920s Polish-language films