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THE POLISH DANCER (BESTIA) + THE SELF SEEKER (CWANIAK)
THE POLISH DANCER (BESTIA)
1917, 48 min, Poland
Silent with Polish and English intertitles
Dir. ALEXANDER HERTZ
Live Music by MARCIN PUKALUK
Cast: Pola Negri (Pola), Maria Dulęba (Wife), Witold Kuncewicz (Husband), Jan Pawłowski (Hoodlum), Mia Mara
'The Polish Dancer' is the only Pola Negri's Polish film that has survived to our times. Pola is a poor village girl, who hangs out in the underworld of Warsaw with Dimitri, her admirer. One day, after a family fight, Pola decides to run away and liberate herself from too obtrusive adorer. In a hotel room she makes him drunk, steal his money and dumps him. On her own she takes on modelling and dancing at a cabaret, meets a wealthy manufacturer Aleksy and soon finds herself in a love affair. Pola is unaware that Aleksy is a married man nor she expects that Dimitri is on his way back to take a revenge
Bestia" to jedyny zachowany w całości film z Polą Negri nakręcony w Polsce. Pola to uboga wiejska dziewczyna, która wolny czas spędza w środowisku warszawskiego półświatka adorowana przez swego ukochanego - Dymitra. Pewnego dnia, po awanturze z rodzicami, postanawia uciec z domu, a potem uwolnić się od swego natrętnego kochanka. W hotelu upija go, okrada i porzuca. Od tej pory rozpoczyna samodzielne życie jako modelka i tancerka w kabarecie. Wkrótce poznaje bogatego przemysłowca Aleksego i rozpoczyna z nim romans. Dziewczyna nie wie, że Aleksy jest żonaty a upokorzony Dymitr postanawia się zemścić...
THE SELF SEEKER /CWANIAK / SHKURNYK
1929, 74 min, Ukraine
Silent; Ukrainian & English intertitles
Dir. NIKOLAI SHPIKOVSKY
Live Music by MARCIN PUKALUK
Cast: Dora Feller-Spikovskaya (Commissar), Dimitry Kaka (Colonel), Luka Lyashenko (Head of Partisans), Ivan Sadovskiy (Apollon Z. Shmyguev Skurnik"), S. Vlasenko (Chief of Bootlegging Checkpoint)
The peaceful life of resourceful Apollon Shmyguew a citizen of Kiev, is disturbed with the outbreak of civil war in Russia. Apollon decides to keep a low profile and take refuge out in the south if Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army, and to where he rides a camel that he accidentally meets on his way. Upon falling in the hands of the 'Reds' he finds himself stripped to the bone for the benefit of the revolution. Even the camel is confiscated for the needs of revolution. But zealous and canning Apollon very soon makes it up for himself and take charge of the local police station. As successful as he may seem Apollon cannot keep himself out of harm's way
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LocationGALLERY THEATRE (View)
1112 NORTH MILWAUKEE AVE.
Chicago, IL 60642
United States
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