The rediscovered films of the pre-revolutionary Russian director Evgenii Bauer, characterized by Symbolist and Decadent motifs, are stunningly original in their use of mise-en-scène and lighting to convey story. The Crimea serves well for both Paris and the Riviera in this opulently staged film about idle bourgeois life in the salons of Paris. Film critic and screenwriter Valentin Turkin wrote in 1918, "Everyone remembers the characters in Bauer's films, figures quietly slipping by or sitting, lost in thought, the tardy, passionate, first embrace of lovers, life quietly passing by, suddenly interrupted by a cry, a fall, death, which leaves in its wake peace and loneliness in empty halls and at the silent cemetery." Bauer died following an accident during the making of The King of Paris and the film was completed by the actress Ol'ga Rakhmanova, making her the first Russian woman director.

  1917

Yevgeni Bauer Korol Parizha srt english

King of Paris (1917) EG\Yevgeni Bauer - Korol Parizha - The King of Paris (1917) EG.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 836 MiB Duration : 1h 2mn Overall bit rate : 1 866 Kbps Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release) Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release Video #0 ID : 0 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format settings, BVOP : Yes Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263) Muxing mode : Packed bitstream Codec ID : DX50 Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5 Duration : 1h 2mn Bit rate : 1 730 Kbps Width : 640 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate : 25.000 fps Resolution : 24 bits Colorimetry : 4:2:0 Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.225 Stream size : 776 MiB (93%) Writing library : DivX 6.8.3 (UTC 2008-06-07) Audio #1 ID : 1 Format : MPEG Audio Format version : Version 1 Format profile : Layer 3 Codec ID : 55 Codec ID/Hint : MP3 Duration : 1h 2mn Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 128 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 57.4 MiB (7%) Alignment : Aligned on interleaves Interleave, duration : 80 ms (2.00 video frames) Interleave, preload duration : 504 ms Writing library : LAME3.97ªªªªªªˆŠhª¨