La polonaise

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poster The Polish Dancer
The Polish Dancer
(3.0/5)
62mn - Drama, Romance
A wild young girl runs away from her parents' house to support herself and attracts the attentions of a married man, who is prepared to abandon his wife and child for her.
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 The Miracle at the Vistula
The Miracle at the Vistula
(2.6/5)
51mn - Drama, Romance, War
Eastern Borderlands, 1919. The Bolsheviks, taking part in the Polish-Russian war, appear at the Granowski manor house. It's a story based on the war of 1920, which ended with the Battle of Warsaw going do…
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 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 The Little House in Kolomna
The Little House in Kolomna
(3.1/5)
31mn - Comedy
Based on the story by Pushkin. Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she also enjoys flirting with the guards's officers who pa…
poster Danse Tyrolienne
Danse Tyrolienne
1mn - Documentary
A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.
poster Ludzie bez jutra
Ludzie bez jutra
(3.3/5)
84mn - Drama, Romance
A bleak tale of an affair between an actress and a Russian officer, based on the real story of the affair between Maria Wisnowska and Aleksandr Barteniew.
poster Polikushka
Polikushka
(3.5/5)
50mn - Drama
"Polikushka" was the only film directed by Aleksandr Sanin, one of Moscow Art Academic Theatre's founders, and is based on Lev Tolstoy's homonym short story. In spite the many differences between the lite…
poster Die Serpentintänzerin
Die Serpentintänzerin
1mn - Documentary
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
poster Italienischer Bauerntanz
Italienischer Bauerntanz
1mn - Documentary
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
poster La Parisienne
La Parisienne
(3.2/5)
86mn - Comedy
The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.
poster The World and Its Woman
The World and Its Woman
70mn - Drama
A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to cross the icy steppes and…
poster Spanish Fiesta
Spanish Fiesta
(3.5/5)
67mn - Drama
A Spanish festival reveals the emotional distance between a woman and a man.
poster A Nymph of the Waves
A Nymph of the Waves
1mn - Documentary
A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with roiling waves behind her. She holds the edges of the ski…
poster Silent Witnesses
Silent Witnesses
(2.9/5)
65mn - Drama
In order to allow another servant to go home to be with her children, Nastya agrees to serve in her place, as a maid in the household in which Nastya's grandfather is a porter. Soon afterwards, the woman …
poster Loïe Fuller
Loïe Fuller
(2.7/5)
2mn - Fantasy, Documentary
This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a skirt dance before disappearing into thin air. The dance is mes…
poster A Moonlight Serenade
A Moonlight Serenade
3mn - Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and offers him something better.
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 La ribalta
La ribalta
5mn -
A woman and a mistress fight.
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