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The Portrait

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1915·45 min·RU
Director: Władysław Starewicz
HorrorThriller

A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived.

A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived.

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Cast

Andrey Gromov

Andrey Gromov

Painter Chartkov

I

Ivan Lazarev

The pawnbroker

R

R. Krechetov

Nikolay Gogol

V

V. Vasilyev

Crew

Nikolai Gogol

writer

Władysław Starewicz

cinematographer

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