Vasili GONCHAROV
Василий ГОНЧАРОВ
Vassili GONTCHAROV
1909, 230m 
silent, fiction
Vanka-klyuchik/ Vanka the Steward
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Ванька-ключник

 

 Vanka l'économe

 Vanka-klyuchik

 
Directed by : Vasili GONCHAROV (Василий ГОНЧАРОВ)
Produced by : Aleksandr KHANZHONKOV (Александр ХАНЖОНКОВ)
Production : A. Khanjonkov & C°
 

Plot synopsis
Who does not know, who has not heard the song, full of poetic affliction, about Vanka the bursar? This fatal lover... And poets and painters have more than once been inspired by this lament in which they have found rich material for their works.
A prince (Vassily Stepanov) behaves casually towards his wife (Lioubov Variagina). One day when he is absent, the bursar Vanka (Andrei Gromov) pays court to the princess. The servant Dashoutka (Alexandra Goncharova) is in love with Vanka. Jealous, she tells everything to the prince who kills stabs Vanka. The princess drops dead. And Dashoutka only has her eyes to cry.