Viktor Tourjansky
Director · 1891 – 1976 · Kiew, Ukraine
Victor Tourjansky (Russian: Виктор Туржанский; Ukrainian: Віктор Туржанський; 4 March 1891 – 13 August 1976), born Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhansky (Russian: Вячеслав Константинович Туржанский; Ukrainian: В'ячеслав Костянтинович Туржанський), was a Russian actor, screenwriter and film director who emigrated after the Russian Revolution of 1917. He worked in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States.
Movies8
Movie8.2DramaCrimeAn industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs money.
Movie8.0La fille sauvage
1922 · 1 votes
MovieHorrorDramaEarly lost Russian horror film.
- Movie8.0
On a carnival evening in Nice, when Jeanne Olier is to be engaged to a certain Natahlie Rouhais, a mysterious woman in black enter the room and violently demands the young girl to renounce this marriage. Jeanne, shaken and afraid, runs away i despair. He is followed by the lady in black.
Nuit de carnaval
1922 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Goncharov. Raisky falls in love with his second cousin Vera, but she coldly rejects his advances. He soon learns that Vera is having an affair with exiled official Mark Volokhov, with whom She is secretly dating. One day, Vera, in a fit of passion, gives herself to Volokhov, which she immediately regrets doing. Raisky and Tatyana Markovna suffer along with her having learned about Vera’s situation. Volokhov invites Vera to marry him but she refuses his proposal. After all these passions, calm comes and in the final frames of the picture, Raisky draws a portrait of Vera, and then sits down to write a long-planned novel.
MovieHorrorDramaA couple of lovers deal with an evil presence that is threatening them. Lost movie.
Movie5.8DramaThis film captures a stage production at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, accompanied by the choir of Moscow Synagogue. Brothers Isaak and Borukh are both in love with Sarra, but Sarra chooses Isaac and they got married. However, Sarra could not conceive for ten years, and their Rabbi tells them that according to Jewish law, they must divorce. Isaak's parents push him to sign the divorce paper, then their Rabbi drops the divorce paper to Sarra's feet. She tells Isaac about her grief, and Isaak commits suicide. Soon after-wards, Sore realizes that she is pregnant, but she is now single.
- MovieComedy
The plot of the farce is the adventures of a merchant woman at a resort; there is a pornographic element. The shots of landscapes of the southern coast of Crimea are successful, the acting is not artistic. The inscriptions are extremely vulgar. Kb Note: In the movie submitted for review by the board, the erotic scene in the 3rd part has been cut out and some cuts have been made in the same part.