Michael chekhov

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poster The Oubliette
The Oubliette
29mn - Drama, History
Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly …
poster The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata
(2.9/5)
42mn - Drama
The Kreutzer Sonata is based on a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of je…
poster The Magician
The Magician
1mn - Fantasy
The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they disappear mysteriously in the air. He then takes a white hand…
poster The Diligent Orderly
The Diligent Orderly
4mn - Comedy
A comedic short about a clumsy valet.
poster The Last Tango
The Last Tango
(2.8/5)
10mn - Drama, Romance
The film is based on the words of a song performed by Iza Kremer in Odessa.
poster The Musgrave Ritual
The Musgrave Ritual
(2.6/5)
18mn - Mystery, Crime
Reginald Musgrave’s maître d’hôtel has disappeared! Called to the rescue, Sherlock Holmes goes immediately to his friend, to inspect the premises. He finds a stolen jewel in the new maître d’hôtel’s jacke…
poster A Spectre Haunts Europe
A Spectre Haunts Europe
70mn - Drama
Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been ban…
poster The Miser
The Miser
5mn - Drama
This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser keep all of his money to himself and refuses to help peo…
poster The Village Shoemakers
The Village Shoemakers
(3.0/5)
92mn - Comedy
Rural comedy of the intrigues and stratagems involving a country wedding. From a comedy by Alexis Kivi.
poster Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer
3mn - Comedy
A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …
poster After Death
After Death
(3.4/5)
46mn - Drama
Young scholar Andrei, fascinated by haunting actress Zoia Kadmina, is surprised when she sends him a note. The two have a brief scheduled meeting, then three months later Andrei is shocked to learn she ha…
poster Daydreams
Daydreams
(3.4/5)
37mn - Drama
Sergei’s beloved wife Yelena has passed away, and the bereaved husband is inconsolable. He remains obsessed with pictures of Yelena and with a braid of her hair that he has saved. One day, while walking i…
poster A Revolutionary
A Revolutionary
(3/5)
36mn - Drama
In 1907, the Russian authorities learn that a revolutionary known as 'Granddad' is living in hiding with his brother. The revolutionary is soon arrested and sent to Siberia. After ten years of struggling …
poster Miniature Theatre
Miniature Theatre
(2.9/5)
5mn - Comedy, Animation
Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and be…
poster Mirages
Mirages
(3/5)
37mn - Drama, Romance
Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Appreciative of her sensitive, artistic nature, and of her youthful innocence and purity, Dymov is protective o…
poster Work
Work
29mn - Comedy
Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. …
poster Forbidden Paradise
Forbidden Paradise
(3.3/5)
76mn - Comedy, Romance
Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirators and is rewarded with her love. Infatuated, he deserts his sweetheart, Anna, the Czarina's lady-in-wai…
poster The Show
The Show
25mn - Comedy, Action
A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
poster Kamarinskaja
Kamarinskaja
1mn - Documentary
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
poster Among Those Present
Among Those Present
35mn - Comedy
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
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