"Your fingers smell incense"
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Alexander Vertinski
From Alexander Vertinski to Vera Kholodnaya
Your fingers smell incense
Sorrow sleeps in your eyes
You need nothing in life.
And feel sorry for nothing.
Les débuts
“Shadow theater” was the third determinant passion of Vera Kholodnaya. When the film with the first cinema actress Asta Nilsen ((Asta Nielsen, bombe du muet Libération)) appeared in Russia, the great Scandinavian became Vera’s ...
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Cinema and revolution - KINO I REVOLIUTSIYA
Miuntsenberg, V.
KINO I REVOLIUTSIYA ("Cinema and Revolution"). First Edition.
Moscow: Mezhrabpom, 1925.
Text in Russian. Tall 8vo (9-1/4 x 6) Softcover. Illustrated with movie photographs. Cover: Avant-garde design (Liubov Popova style).
1897- Karl Marx- Communist Manifesto
1914- World War One begins
1899- Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
1917- Russian Revolution begins
1903- Wright brothers, 1st airplane flight
1905- Theory of Relativity- Albert ...
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le samedi 15 décembre 2007 [n° 1928] Music
Composers started writing noisy music about machines, and it started showing up on New York concert programs. Honneger's Pacific 231 (video) ((Pacific 231 est un court métrage réalisé par Jean Mitry en 1949. Il est illustré par la pièce symphonique composée en 1923 par Arthur Honegger, Pacific 231.))-- about a steam locomotive -- is the most famous, and showed ...
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le jeudi 11 octobre 2007 [n° 1840] Art
Blue Noses
“Mercy era”
Edition : 10
Year: 2005
Dimensions: 75x100 cm
Technique: color photo, V.Mizin, A.Shaburov. From the series "Vogue of Labor"
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"The Culture and Press Ministry has withdrawn several works of modern art from an exhibition due in France next week for being too "provocative," including one of two policemen kissing and caressing each other's buttocks.
Artists and experts said the move to pull 17 ...
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Pikovaya dama
Russian movie posters Fakeproject Corporation of America
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Cinéma / DVD
Pikovaya dama (1916) :
Director Yakov Protazanov ((Yakov Protazanov Wikipedia (fr)))
Author : Alexander Pushkin (short story "Pikovaya dama") and Fyodor Otsep
La Dame de pique (1937) par Fédor Ozep ((Acteurs :
Marguerite Moreno (La comtesse Tomski, dite la Dame de Pique)
Pierre Blanchar (Hermann)
Madeleine Ozeray (Lisa)
André Luguet (Iretski)
Abel Jacquin (Tomski)
Camille Bert ...
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