The Picture of Dorian Grey (1915 film)

For the American adaptation from the same year, see The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915 film).
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Directed by
Written byVsevolod Meyerhold
Based onThe Picture of Dorian Gray
1891 novel
by Oscar Wilde
StarringVarvara Yanova
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Gustav Enriton
CinematographyAleksandr Levitsky
Release date
  • 1915 (1915)
Running time
22 minutes
CountryRussia
Languages

The Picture of Dorian Grey (Russian: Портрет Дориана Грея) was a 1915 Russian silent drama film based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel of the same title. Directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold and Mikhail Doronin, with art direction by Vladimir Yegorov [ru], this screen adaptation should not be confused with another film also released in 1915, one produced by the Thanhouser Company in the United States and starring actor Harris Gordon.[1][a] A print of Thanhouser's version is preserved in the Library of Congress, and digitized portions of that motion picture are available on YouTube and on other streaming services. No footage, however, from this Russian release is listed among the holdings of major film repositories around the world, so it is currently presumed to be lost.[2]

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Notes

  1. ^ A slight variation in the given English titles of the Russian and American films helps to differentiate the two 1915 productions in listings. The spelling of Dorian's surname is "Grey" in the Russian version; "Gray", in Thanhouser's release.

References

  1. ^ Christie & Taylor p.432
  2. ^ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.silentera.com.

Bibliography

  • Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
  • The Picture of Dorian Grey at IMDb
  • ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› The Picture of Dorian Grey at AllMovie


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