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Deti veka

  • 1915
  • 1h 1m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
184
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Vera Kholodnaya in Her Sister's Rival (1916)
Drama

Maria, a contented housewife married to a bank director, enjoys a comfortable life. While idly spending an afternoon, she reconnects with an old friend, Lidia.Maria, a contented housewife married to a bank director, enjoys a comfortable life. While idly spending an afternoon, she reconnects with an old friend, Lidia.Maria, a contented housewife married to a bank director, enjoys a comfortable life. While idly spending an afternoon, she reconnects with an old friend, Lidia.

  • Director
    • Yevgeny Bauer
  • Writer
    • M. Mikhailov
  • Stars
    • Arsenii Bibikov
    • V. Glinskaya
    • Ivan Gorskiy
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    184
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Yevgeny Bauer
    • Writer
      • M. Mikhailov
    • Stars
      • Arsenii Bibikov
      • V. Glinskaya
      • Ivan Gorskiy
    • 2User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Arsenii Bibikov
    • Lebedev
    V. Glinskaya
    • Lidija Verkhonskaja
    Ivan Gorskiy
      Vera Kholodnaya
      Vera Kholodnaya
      • Maria
      Sergey Rassatov
      • Bank Director
      • (as S. Rassatov)
      Andrey Sotnikov
      • Lobovich
      • (as A. Sotnikov)
      Aleksandr Vyrubov
      • Public official
      • Director
        • Yevgeny Bauer
      • Writer
        • M. Mikhailov
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      8boblipton

      An Age Is Passing But Will The Next Be Different?

      I saw the 37-minute version of this one-hour movie directed by Yevgeni Bauer and I found it bizarre and terrifying: not because it was a poor story but because it seemed a commentary of Mack Sennet.

      Vera Kholodnaya lives a comfortable, middle-class life. She spends her day shopping and goes home to her comfortable apartment, to her husband, whom she loves, and her baby, whom she adores,and whom the maid has been taking care of. That evening, she and her husband go to a party, and a rich man suggests an affair She rebuffs him. Later, a friend takes her to a park and again, in what seems like a solemn version of a Sennett flirting-in-the-park comedy, she is accosted. When she runs to her friend, she is met with incomprehension, as if to ask why is she upset. This is what happens to beautiful women.

      Her husband loses her job. Miss Kholodnaya is trapped in this nightmare world, where rich men who look like Mack Swain and Chester Conklin in well-fitting evening clothes make the rules, without even ineffectual Keystone Kops to to try to stop them, because these are the men who command them. I think that Bauer's audience knew this nightmare world, because they lived in it, just as Sennett's audience did, even as they laughed at their oppressors; sometimes jokes are the only weapons the weak have against the powerful.

      Did Bauer know when he made this how little time this particular age had left to run? World War One was raging, and it would bring down the Russia he knew.... and replace it with another, where the aristocracy masqueraded as members of the oppressed classes.
      6FerdinandVonGalitzien

      The Most Talented, Skillful And Resourceful Early Russian Silent Director

      For this German count, Herr Evgenii Bauer was the most talented, skillful and resourceful early Russian silent director of the pre-revolutionary time. His films were full of style and elegance and very accomplished in their technical aspects especially considering the primitive cinematographic elements that were the norm in that early era.

      "Deti Veka" ( Children Of The Age ) (1915) although is not one of Herr Bauer's greatest works has many assets that deserve attention, especially as so few of his films have survived to these modernen times.

      The picture tells the story of Frau Maria ( Frau Vera Kholodnaia ), a devoted wife of a bank employee. The couple has a cozy life; they have a baby but he is cared for by their maid so Frau Maria can spend her time doing terrific things like going shopping. During one of these consumer afternoons Frau Maria meets by chance an old friend, Frau Lidia, who will introduce her to exclusive idle social circles. Soon Frau Maria's beauty attracts the interest of Herr Lebedev, a rich old libertine. From that point on Frau Maria suffers continual sexual harassment (worthy of inclusion of any silent film encyclopedia article on beleaguered heroines) which she resists for a time. In the end however she falls into his bourgeois claws.

      Herr Bauer smoothly maintains the pace of this sad drama and the Russian sets work very well ( Herr Bauer entered films as set designer ). We see Maria's peaceful life in her apartment with her husband and child contrasted with the luxurious settings Herr Lebedev uses to gain Maria's favour. The film narrative has a very modern flavor. There is also subtle criticism of the upper classes: Herr Lebedev uses his influence to get the husband fired from the bank and then offers him money to leave Maria and their child. This leads to a tragic denouement. Indeed the husband is the proper hero of the film and he suffers in bewilderment to see his peaceful life shattered to pieces and with it the loss of his family and job.

      In technical aspects, the film includes light camera movements and editing that while not very astounding are quite effective in advancing the story; this is typical of Herr Bauer's well known elegance.

      And now, if you'll allow me, I must temporarily take my leave because this German Count must leave one rich heiress behind and move on to another one.

      Herr Graf Ferdinand Von Galitzien http://ferdinandvongalitzien.blogspot.com

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      • Release date
        • December 3, 1915 (Russia)
      • Country of origin
        • Russia
      • Languages
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        • Russian
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        • Children of the Age
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        • Khanzhonkov
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        1 hour 1 minute
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        • Black and White
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        • Silent

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