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[MIKHAIL CHEKHOV IN THE MOVIES] Vrazh’ia sila. Programma na 25 maia (tol’ko na odin den’) [i.e. Enemy Power. Program on May 25 (One Day Only)]

Item #2652

Moscow, 1916. 32,5 × 14,5 cm. Very good. Crease in half, defect of upper edge repaired.

The broadside is advertising the cinema performance in provincial Pushkino (the railway town on Moscow - Saint-Petersburg route). The first film shown that evening was ‘Enemy Power’ by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky (1888—1955) Russian cinematographer, from 1916, he collaborated as a screenwriter with the Era film company and the I. Ermoliev Partnership, and was a laboratory assistant at the Keneke and Martynov Moscow film laboratory. During the February Revolution, he filmed a workers’ demonstration organized by the Moscow Soviet. From June 1917, he worked as a cameraman, screenwriter, and director at the Rus film factory.
The second film was ‘Liubvi Siurprizy tschetnye’ [i.e. The Love’s Fruitless Surprises’] with no director stated, featuring Mikhail Chekhov as a lead character. For Chekhov, who was 25 years old at the time, it was 6th appearance on silver screen, followed by one more picture in 1920s, before his departure to Germany and USA.

Price: $450.00