DAYDREAMS (Grezy). Alternative title: Deceived Dreams (Obmanutye mechty). Director: Evgeni Bauer. Screenplay: M. Bosov & Valentin Turkin. Based on the novel Bruges la Morte by Georges Rodenbach. Photography: Boris Zavelev. Production Company: Khanzhonkov. Released October 10, 1915. Cast: Aleksandr Vyrubov (Sergei
Nikolaevich Nedelin). N. Chernobaeva (His wife and Tina Viarskaia, an actress). Viktor Arens (Sol'skii, an artist).
Titles translated by Julian Graffy. Original music by Neil Brand. Produced by Erich Sargeant. Selection and notes by Ian Christie.
Daydreams is regarded by many as Bauer's surviving masterpiece. Film historian and archivist Paolo Cherchi Usai describes it as "a masterful balance between subject technique and narrative development. The tension in the plot (reminding one of Hitchcock's Vertigo) reaches its climax in the extraordinary tracking shot during which the camera quite literally follows the main character along a deserted street, stops when he stops, then tracks back slowly, while he retraces his route. Necrophilia, mysticism and abstraction are the main ingredients of a tale with an astonishing and eerie finale.''
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.
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