The Girl from the Street
Russian: Дитя большого города
Directed byYevgeni Bauer
Written byYevgeni Bauer
Produced byAleksandr Khanzhonkov
Starring
  • Elena P. Smirnova
  • Nina Kozlyaninova
  • Mikhail Salarov
  • Arseny Bibikov
  • Emma Bauer
  • Leonid Iost
  • Lidiya Tridenskaya
CountryRussian Empire

The Girl from the Street (Russian: Дитя большого города) is a 1914 short film directed by Yevgeni Bauer.[1][2][3][4]

Plot

The film tells about the daughter of a poor laundress who falls in love with a rich guy, and when she throws him, he commits suicide.

Reception

The film received positive reviews the year it was released.[5] “Bulletin of Cinematography” wrote that “the picture is set above praise”.[6] The review also noted that Elena Smirnova's performance “leaves nothing to be desired.” The “oriental dance” performed by Emma Bauer stood out in particular, the reviewer wrote about the amazing plasticity of the artist, her quivering snake-like movements, reminiscent of the expressive plasticity of the famous English dancer Miss Maud Alan.[7]

“The only beauty of the production of Russian drama” was called the picture by the magazine “Kinema”.[8] He also noted the game of E. Smirnova and M. Salarov and the fact that “the rest of the performers supported the general ensemble.”

In the future, critics also highly appreciated the film. In particular, film historian Veniamin Vishnevsky singled out this picture as “the most interesting film by E. F. Bauer, realistically interpreting the characters and the environment”.[9]

Film critic Oksana Bulgakova in her book “Gesture Factory” pointed out that “Child of the Big City” repeats the plot scheme of another film by Yevgeny Bauer, “Silent Witnesses”: a girl from a low social class becomes the mistress of an aristocrat. But in Silent Witnesses, neither the position nor the sign language of the maid changes. In the film “Child of the Big City”, “the fashionista, becoming a cocotte, adopts the posture and body language attributed in “Silent Witnesses” to an aristocrat”, “the actress plays two bodies”.[10] The author of the book also cites one of the “magic hand gestures” from the film as an illustration of the means of expression in silent films.[11]

Starring

  • Elena P. Smirnova as Manetschka / Mary (as Elena Smirnova)
  • Nina Kozlyaninova as Manetschka as child
  • Mikhail Salarov as Viktor Krawzow
  • Arseny Bibikov as Kramskoi, his friend
  • Emma Bauer as The dancer
  • Leonid Iost as The lackey
  • Lidiya Tridenskaya as The washerwoman[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Ежемесячные показы знаковых фильмов отечественного производства стартовали в СВАО". marfino.mos.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  2. ↑ "Черно-белые фильмы начала XX века будут ежемесячно транслироваться в СВАО". losinka.mos.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  3. ↑ ""Сатурн" покажет ретро-кино в Свиблове". sviblovo.mos.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  4. ↑ "В Самаре состоится последняя серия проекта "Звук и экран"". samara.kp.ru (in Russian). 2015-12-09. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  5. ↑ Narskij, Igor (May 2018). "Анна Иванова. Магазины «Березка»: парадоксы потребления в позднем СССР. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2017". Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research. 10 (1): 104–107. doi:10.25285/2078-1938-2018-10-1-104-107. ISSN 2076-8214.
  6. ↑ MacDonagh, Thomas (1914). "Two Poems". The Irish Review. 4 (38): 85–86. doi:10.2307/30063738. ISSN 2009-0978. JSTOR 30063738.
  7. ↑ Вестник Пермского университета. История. Perm State University (PSU). doi:10.17072/2219-3111. S2CID 211096307.
  8. ↑ Кинема, 1914, № 6, с. 4.
  9. ↑ "Зайцев А.В. Общественный диалог в дореволюционной России и СССР". Genesis: исторические исследования. 8 (8): 127–141. August 2017. doi:10.25136/2409-868x.2017.8.21943. ISSN 2409-868X.
  10. ↑ Bannikov, Константин (2007-12-20). "Ж.В.Кормина, Проводы в армию в пореформенной России. Опыт этнографического анализа, Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2005, 376 c. [Zhanna Kormina, Ri". The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-soviet Societies (6/7). doi:10.4000/pipss.557. ISSN 1769-7069.
  11. ↑ Bannikov, Константин (2007-12-20). "Ж.В.Кормина, Проводы в армию в пореформенной России. Опыт этнографического анализа, Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2005, 376 c. [Zhanna Kormina, Ri". The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-soviet Societies (6/7). doi:10.4000/pipss.557. ISSN 1769-7069.
  12. ↑ Child of the Big City (1914) - IMDb, retrieved 2022-02-08


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