Note : According to Gosfilmofond, it is highly probable but not yet proven that Evgeny Bauer was the director of this film.
Plot synopsis
Young poet Vitold falls in love with the café singer Lyulya Beck, forgetting about his fiancée.
In 2007, Gosfilmofond researcher Valery Bosenko discovered two clips from an unknown pre-revolutionary film in a copy of the adventure film "The Thief of Baghdad" (1924) starring Douglas Fairbanks and gave them the provisional title "A Poet's Drama." In August 2024, Gosfilmofond art historian Alexandra Ustyuzhanina attributed these clips to fragments from "Lulya Bek," the first film based on a screenplay by Anna Mar, known for her romance novels and short stories. The director is presumably Yevgeny Bauer. Previously, only two scenes from "Lulya Bek" were known; now, almost half of the original footage is available. The film has been reconstructed: the correct scene sequence has been restored, intertitles and explanatory captions have been added in place of the missing scenes. During the digital restoration, image defects have been corrected, and color correction has been performed.
