The first film Epstein made for Albatros stars Ivan Mosjoukine as a Mogul prince in exile. After getting caught up in such vices of the Occident as drinking, movies and women, the prince eventually returns to his Khanate and to his waiting bride.Read More »
Nathalie Lissenko
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Jean Epstein – Le lion des Mogols (1924)
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Alexandre Volkoff – Kean (141-minute version) (1924)
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This is a biopic of the 19th Century actor, Edmund Kean.You may remember him for his famous last words: “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.”
Made some 90 years after his death, the film tells of the greatest actor of his time, a man toasted as the greatest actor of all time.
Great though he may have been on the stage, his personal life was a wreck.
He was hounded by creditors, had a problem with alcohol, and to make matters worse, had fallen in love with the wife of an ambassador.Read More »