The Dagger Woman

The Dagger Woman (1916)

Based on Leonid Andreyev's play Ekaterina Ivanovna.

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1916-05-31
  • Runtime: 1h 36min
  • Language: No Language
  • Production Company: Yermoliev
  • Production Country: Russia
  • Director: Yakov Protazanov

Summary

Ivan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees in her only the perfect model for his picture, "The Dagger Woman." Studying her, and by carefully playing on her emotions he gains her confidence, and afterward she consents to pose for him. The picture completed, she is grieved and then angered to discover that Ivan's interest rests solely in it, and how it will fare at the exhibition. She pleads with him in vain. The picture is pronounced a masterpiece, and Ivan is in his triumph as he returns to his studio. Here Olga has secreted herself. Humiliated by the reports circulated regarding herself and the artist, and unable longer to bear his disinterest she plunges a dagger to his heart and kills him.

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  • Ivan Mosjoukine

    as Sakhovskiy, the painter
  • Olga Gzovskaya

    as Lena
  • Nikolai Panov

    as Rokotov, Lena's father
  • Zoia Karabanova

    as
Writing Leonid Andreyev Novel
Directing Yakov Protazanov Director
Writing Nicolas Rimsky Writer
Art Vladimir Ballyuzek Production Design

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