Vera Malinovskaya

Simeon Vyrine, un maître de poste, gère son relais de poste avec sa fille Dounia à la beauté remarquée par nombre de voyageurs. De passage, le capitaine de cavalerie Minski feint un mal soudain afin de rester quelques jours au relais en sa compagnie. En repartant, il enlève la jeune fille au désespoir de son père. Celui-ci, décidé à retrouver sa fille, suit leur traces jusqu'à Saint-Pétersbourg et confronte Minski Le Maître de poste (nouvelle). (2024, avril 23). Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre

'Romantic story of a gallant adventurer at the Court of Maria Teresa.' (The Bioscope)

This presentation of 'Waterloo', a film by Karl Grune about the last hurrah of Napoleon, is a fascinating companion to the Abel Gance epic 'Napoleon'. 'Waterloo' presents a tale of several people involved in the final battle. Napoleon and Wellington, of course, but also the Austrian general Blutcher (who is seen as a ladies' man - his scene with a flirty Countess about halfway through the film is priceless; as are his touching scenes with his plain wife (who he imagines to be a young and nubile girl when they get romantic) and some people within his regiment. Not simply a film of war, 'Waterloo' is a story of people, of lovers, of lost opportunities.

Konstantin Eggert both directed and starred as Count Shemet, cursed by his insane mother’s traumatic experience with a bear to have seizures during which he himself becomes a “bear” on the kill.

During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy restaurant which catered to the appetites and egos of the rich. In one such establishment works a middle-aged waiter who is devoted to serving his bourgeoisie clients correctly. However, his life outside his job is very different: His son was killed during the Russian civil war and the waiter's wife died of grief as a result....