Vera Kholodnaya Back on the Big Screen
The Moscow Times reports that a silent film festival will bring back to the fore 1910s Russian star Vera Kholodnaya. Four of Kholodnaya’s films will be shown at Moscow’s Illyuzion Theater in the upcoming weeks: Be Silent, Sorrow, Be Silent, a 1918 production about a circus artist who, while married to an alcoholic acrobat, is wooed by a wealthy admirer; Mirages, with a new score by the St. Petersburg electronic duo Yolochniye Igrushki; Children of the Century, in which the actress once again plays a married woman – this time, a clerk’s wife – pursued by a wealthy suitor; and Yevgeni Bauer’s 1916 romantic drama Zhizn za zhizn / A Life for a Life. In 1919, at the age of 26, Kholodnaya died at the peak of her fame from an incurable illness. (Probably the Spanish flu, though rumor has it that she was killed by the Bolsheviks.)
The festival has been organized by Carmen Video, which will be releasing Kholodnaya DVDs in the near future.
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I have seen two of Vera’s film in New York’s Museum Of Modern Art and have “A life for a Life” on video. I truly enjoyed her films. Question: How Can we get these videos here in New York? And sure hope that her autobiography video will be release here as well with English subtitles. Thank you and kind regards.