The Duel (1910 film) explained

The Duel
Native Name:	Russian: Поединок
Director:	Maurice Maître
Cinematography:	Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
Runtime:	35 min.
Country:	Russian Empire
Studio:	Pathé Frères^[1]

The Duel (Russian: Поединок|Poedinok) is a 1910^[2] Russian short film directed by Maurice Maître.

Plot

The film is based on the 1905 novel The Duel by Aleksandr Kuprin.

Lieutenant Romashov falls in love with his captain's young wife Alexandra Nikolaeva.

History

The premiere took place on September 28, 1910. The film has been preserved to our time without inscriptions.^[3]

Cast

• A. Lesnogorsky as Romashov
• Z. Mamonova as Shurochka
• Nikolay Vailiev as Nikolaev
• Lidiya Sycheva
• Nikolai Vekov

Film crew

Directed by: André Maitre

Screenplay: Vladimir Konenko

Cinematography: Georges Meyer, Toppi

Production designer: Czeslaw Sabinski

Literature

• Great Cinema. Catalog of Surviving Feature Films of Russia. 1908 — 1919; New Literary Review Publishing, 2002. Page 66.

See also

• Duel (1957 film)

Notes and References

1. https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/empire/12393/annot/ The Duel
2. https://rg.ru/2014/05/29/kuprin.html Не рой другому Яму
3. Book: Velikiĭ kinemo : katalog sokhranivshikhsi︠a︡ igrovykh filʹmov Rossii, 1908-1919 . 2002 . Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie . V. Ivanova, В. Иванова . 5-86793-155-2 . Moskva . 49633949.