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FILM PORTRET DORIANA GREYA (RUS 1915)

CONTENTS

DATA SHEET
ABSTRACT
PICTURES
LITERATURE

DATA SHEET

PORTRET DORIANA GREYA THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Directed by:	Vsevolod Meyerhold.
Written by:	Vsevolod Meyerhold (from the novel by Oscar Wilde).
Photography:	Alexander Levitsky.
Set design:	Vladimir Yegorov.
Cast:	Varvara Yanova (Dorian), Vsevolod Meyerhold (Lord Henry Wotton), G. Enriton, P. Belova, Doronin, Y. Uvarova, Alexander Volkov.
Première:	01 Dec 1915, Thiemann & Reinhardt.
Censorship data:	2124 m.
Restoration data:	The film is considered as lost.

ABSTRACT

[THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY] was original and daring as few films before it or since have dared to be. Russian artists who saw it and then THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI a few years later in Europe, tell me that if it had been shown abroad it would have surpassed CALIGARI's reputation as a heigthening of film art. It was undoubtedly the most important Russian film made previous to the February Revolution. (Jay Leyda: Kino, 1960)

PICTURES

LITERATURE

Braun, E. 1969: Meyerhold on Theatre. London: Methuen [see pp. 303-311, including a translation of Meyerhold's 1918 lecture on The Picture of Dorian Gray, first published in Iz istorii kino (Moscow) no. 6, pp. 18-24].
Braun, E. 1979: The Theatre of Meyerhold, Revolution and the Modern Stage. London: Methuen [see pp. 131-133 & 278].
Hoover, M. L. 1974: Meyerhold, The Art of Conscious Theater. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press [see pp. 241-244 & 286 & 324].
Leyda, J. 1960 (2nd edition 1973, 3rd edition 1983): Kino, A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. London, Boston, Sydney: George Allen & Unwin [see (3rd edition 1983) pp. 81-82 & 420-421].

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