A CHILD OF THE BIG CITY (Ditia bol'shogo goroda). Alternative title: The Girl From the Street (Devushka s ulitsy). Director/Art Director: Evgeni Bauer. Photography: Boris Zavelev. Production Company: Khanzhonkov. Released March 5, 1914. Cast: Elena Smirnova (Monechka/Mary). Nina Kozlianinava (Mon'ka, the heroine, as a child). Mikhail Salarov (Viktor Kravtsov). Arsenii Bibikov (Kramskoi, his comrade). Leonid Iost (Kravisov's lackey). Lidiia Tridenskaia (Masha, a laundress). Emma Bauer (A dancer).
Titles translated by Julian Graffy. Original music by Neil Brand. Produced by Erich Sargeant. Selection and notes by Ian Christie.
A Child of the Big City traces the heroine Mon'ka's evolution from a poor innocent seamstress to a monster of depravity and egotism. Her "rise" is paralleled by the fall of her idealistic admirer, Viktor, who finally commits suicide in face of her callous disregard. Film historian Miriam Hansen has noted this unusual variation on the familiar melodrama schema of the male aggressor and female victim: "Bauer's contemporary urban and upper-class settings display male ruin and inadequacy as an effect of the real or imagined revenge of a powerful woman."
EVGENI BAUER (1865-1917)
Until recently, Bauer was little more than a name, albeit one cited approvingly in brief accounts of pre-Revolutionary Russian cinema. Now with some 26 films known of the 86 he directed in a career that spanned just five years he has been claimed as the major filmmaker of the pre-Soviet period and indeed a director of world stature.
Evgeni Frantsevich Bauer came from a musical and artistic family. He graduated from the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and worked in the theatre and as an "artistic photographer" before entering cinema as a designer on Drankov's Tercentenary of the House of Romanov (1913). However, the rest of his career would be with Drankov's rival Khanzhonkov and he was soon renowned (and highly paid) for his spaciously designed, leisurely-paced and subtly lit melodramas. His background in photography helped him improve the quality of film lighting making use of top and back lighting, for many of his most admired effects — and necessitating the use of the ornamental columns that became a trademark to hide the numerous lights.
He also scripted and photographed many of his films and helped create some of the most popular stars of the period including Vera Kholodnaia, Vera Karalli, and his wife Lina Bauer. Ironically it was a wish to add acting to his other talents that led indirectly to his death in mid-1917, when he contracted neumonia after an accident while in the Crimea shooting For Luck.
Código: Seleccionar todo
File Name .........................................: A child of the big city (Ditya bolshogo goroda) (Evgeni Bauer, 1914) [DVDrip Xvid-Mp3].avi
File Size (in bytes) ............................: 450,574,336 bytes
Runtime ............................................: 36:57.698
Video Codec ...................................: XviD ISO MPEG-4
Frame Size ......................................: 608x448 (AR: 1.357)
FPS .................................................: 23.976
Video Bitrate ...................................: 1488 kb/s
Bits per Pixel ...................................: 0.228 bpp
B-VOP, N-VOP, QPel, GMC.............: [B-VOP], [], [], []
Audio Codec ...................................: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
Sample Rate ...................................: 48000 Hz
Audio Bitrate ...................................: 128 kb/s [2 channel(s)] CBR
No. of audio streams .......................: 1
A child of the big city (Ditya bolshogo goroda) (Evgeni Bauer, 1914) (DVDrip Xvid-Mp3).avi 
