Le banquier peu scrupuleux Ornano vend sa maison, en Italie, pour réaliser avec les trois millions obtenus une affaire juteuse au détriment de la population affamée par les mauvaises récoltes. Sa femme envoie à son amant un billet lui expliquant où est caché l'argent. Le billet est intercepté par Cascaril, gentleman-cambrioleur qui, la nuit venue, se précipite au domicile du ba...
Based on story by Ivan Shmelev.
The movie action starts very close before February democratic revolution in Russia in 1917.
Fate is cruel to waiter of capital city restaurant Skorohodov: his son dies on front, his wife perishes from grief, his daughter is excluded from grammar school because of lack of money to pay tuition.
Skorohodov decides to rent one of rooms in his poor a...
Shot in pieces by the White Russian cinema community during their emigration to France, L'Angoissante Aventure is afascinating hybrid, reflecting the multifaceted talents of the first generations of Russian filmmakers and the path not taken by early Soviet cinema. Director Yakov Protazanov had already made a name for himself through his film versions of the Queen of Spades (191...