Mad Love- The Films Of Evgeni Bauer DVD

Year: 1921Length: 144 minutes
Russian film poet Evgeni Bauer combined the technical virtuosity of D.W. Griffith with the haunting terror of Edgar Allan Poe and the artist's eye of Johannes Vermeer. He is perhaps the greatest film director you have never heard of. During his brief four-year career, Bauer created macabre masterpieces, dramas darkly obsessed with doomed love and death, astonishing for their graceful camera movements, risqu‚ themes, opulent sets and chiaroscuro lighting. Tragically, Bauer died in 1917, succumbing to pneumonia after breaking his leg. For many decades, Bauer's films were buried in the Soviet archives, declared too "cosmopolitan" and bizarre for the puritanical Soviet regime. But with the fall of the Iron Curtain, Bauer's work has risen like a glorious phoenix out of the ashes of time. Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913): Bauer's first surviving film tells the story of a society woman who kills her rapist and, in its aftermath, must make a new life for herself when her husband leaves her. After Death: Adapted from a story by Ivan Turgenev, this film explores one of Bauer's favorite themes: the psychological hold of the dead over the living. The Dying Swan: An artist obsessed with the idea of capturing death on canvas becomes fixated on a mute ballerina. Restored by the Russian state archive Gosfilmofond and featuring brilliant new scores commissioned by the British Film Institute.
Product Features:
Audio Format: Stereo
Screen Format: Full Frame
16x9: Unknown
Color: Color & B&W
Region Code: Region 1
Original Languages: English
English Dubbed: No
Other Languages: None
Subtitles: None
Special Features:
37-Minute Documentary Film Essay on Evgeni Bauer by Russian Film Scholar Yuri Tsivian; Still Gallery.

Mad Love: The Films Of Evgeni Bauer DVD