Mikhail kaufman

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poster The Dying Swan
The Dying Swan
(3.6/5)
49mn - Drama
After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinel…
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 The Clockmaker's Dream
The Clockmaker's Dream
2mn - Fantasy
A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping clock-maker some new kinds of clocks that they know ho…
poster The Lilliputian Minuet
The Lilliputian Minuet
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.
poster The Artist's Dilemma
The Artist's Dilemma
2mn - Fantasy, Comedy
The scene opens in an artist's studio, the artist asleep in his chair. A large old fashioned clock opens and a young lady comes out and awaking the artist, requests him to paint her picture. While the art…
poster An Artist's Dream
An Artist's Dream
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from the frames and walk forward, admiring their costumes. Mep…
poster Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
(3.2/5)
3mn - Comedy, Animation
A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.
poster The Haunted Castle
The Haunted Castle
(3.4/5)
3mn - Fantasy, Horror
In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.
poster One Dark Night
One Dark Night
(2.8/5)
89mn - Horror
A strange man named Karl Rhamarevich dies shortly after discovering a way to become even more powerful in death through telekinesis. On the night of his burial in a crypt, Julie is to spend the night ther…
poster Mazeppa
Mazeppa
(2.8/5)
15mn - Drama, History
Mazepa, the Ukrainian governor is in love with his goddaughter Maria. He quickly wins her heart. But her old father treats the wooer harshly… Maria runs away. The furious father won’t submit. This intrigu…
poster Zigoto and the Affair of the Necklace
Zigoto and the Affair of the Necklace
(2.9/5)
8mn - Comedy
The film begins with the Count giving an actress a necklace. However, after her performance, the valuable necklace is missing and so the actress goes to hire some detectives to find it. I loved the strang…
poster A Nightmare
A Nightmare
1mn - Horror
A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.
poster Extraordinary Illusions
Extraordinary Illusions
2mn - Comedy
Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.
poster Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible
Tsar Ivan Vasilevich The Terrible
(3.5/5)
42mn - Drama, History
This film was a true peculiarity, a filmed version of the great Feodor Chaliapin in one of his most famous roles; the fact that it was a silent film, with title cards, meant that audiences could only appr…
poster The Man with Wax Faces
The Man with Wax Faces
11mn - Horror, Thriller
A man does not know what fear is. His good friend dares him to spend one night in a scary place. A house of wax will get the job done.
poster Tit for Tat
Tit for Tat
1mn - Comedy
Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by …
poster Faust and Marguerite
Faust and Marguerite
1mn - Fantasy, Horror
Marguerite is seated in front of the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite. Faust refuses, whereupon Meph…
poster A Mesmerian Experiment
A Mesmerian Experiment
3mn - Fantasy
A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.
poster The Mysterious Box
The Mysterious Box
2mn - Fantasy
As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these chairs the operator places a sheet of glass on which h…
poster Return to Reason
Return to Reason
3mn - Drama
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
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