Yevgeni Bauer

Directing

Yevgeni Bauer

Born — Died

1865-01-01 — 1917-06-22

Place of birth

Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Yevgeni Franzevich Bauer (1865 - 1917) was a Russian film director of silent films, a theatre artist and a screenwriter. His work had a great influence on the aesthetics of Russian cinematography at the beginning of the 20th century. Bauer made more than seventy films between 1913 and 1917 of which 26 survived. He already used the relatively long sequence shots and displacements that would come to be associated with camera virtuosos.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Dying Swan poster
6.5

After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinely.

The Dying Swan

1917

For Happiness poster
6.2

Since Zoya Verenskaya's husband passed away ten years ago, she has been devoted to her daughter Lee. At present, Lee is in poor health, and she is in danger of losing her eyesight. Zoya's suitor Dmitry wants to get married, but Zoya is determined to wait until Lee is better. Then, on a vacation in the Crimea, they learn Lee's true feelings for Dmitry, and suddenly all of their lives are thrown into turmoil.

For Happiness

1917

Burnt Wings poster
NR

Lost movie.

Burnt Wings

1915

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Сказка синего моря

1916

Гриф старого борца poster
NR

Lost film.

Гриф старого борца

1916

The Adventures of Shpeier and His “Jacks of Hearts” Gang poster
NR

The adventures of the world-famous swindler Speyer and his famous gang of "Jacks of Hearts"

The Adventures of Shpeier and His “Jacks of Hearts” Gang

1915

No artwork available
NR

Lost film.

From Crime to Crime

1915

Ямщик, не гони лошадей poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ямщик, не гони лошадей

1916

After Death poster
6.0

Young scholar Andrei, fascinated by haunting actress Zoia Kadmina, is surprised when she sends him a note. The two have a brief scheduled meeting, then three months later Andrei is shocked to learn she has died. He becomes obsessed with Zoia's memory and decides he must find out all that he can about her.

After Death

1915

After Death poster
6.0

Young scholar Andrei, fascinated by haunting actress Zoia Kadmina, is surprised when she sends him a note. The two have a brief scheduled meeting, then three months later Andrei is shocked to learn she has died. He becomes obsessed with Zoia's memory and decides he must find out all that he can about her.

After Death

1915

A Life for a Life poster
5.8

Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal.

A Life for a Life

1916

A Life for a Life poster
5.8

Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal.

A Life for a Life

1916

Bronskiy Sisters poster
NR

Drama of the rivalry between two sisters who love the same man. Lost film.

Bronskiy Sisters

1916

The Moon Beauty poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Moon Beauty

1916

No artwork available
NR

Opera singer Yuri Nagorny is a famous celadon and a ladies' man. Easily and with impunity he breaks women's hearts. But retribution catches up with him. Sister once seduced and ruined Nagorny dancer arranges arson in his apartment. The seducer's face is disfigured by burns - now he is safe for women.

Yuriy Nagorniy

1916

Nelly Raintseva poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nelly Raintseva

1916

Queen Of The Screen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Queen Of The Screen

1916

No artwork available
10.0

The play written down by Al. Voznesensky for the stage, not in vain called by the author "drama without words", because its plot, indeed, does not require "words", although they had to be introduced in small quantities when the play was adapted for the screen.

Tears

1914

Twilight of a Woman's Soul poster
5.9

Despite living in luxury, Vera is lonely and discontented. When she accompanies her mother, the Countess, on a charity visit to the poor, she is troubled by what she sees, and she resolves to do whatever she can to help them…

Twilight of a Woman's Soul

1913

Children of the Age poster
4.8

The picture tells the story of Maria, a devoted wife of a bank employee. The couple has a cozy life; they have a baby but he is cared for by their maid so Maria can spend her time doing terrific things like going shopping. During one of these consumer afternoons, Maria meets by chance an old friend, Lidia, who will introduce her to exclusive idle class social circles. Soon Maria's beauty attracts the interest of Lebedev, a rich old libertine. From that point on Maria suffers continual sexual harassment which she resists for a time. In the end, however, she falls into his bourgeois claws.

Children of the Age

1915

The King of Paris poster
5.9

The lives of two young men-- A virtuous artist who's renounced a background of riches and a debonair swindler proclaimed by many the King of Paris-- intersect when the artist's mother becomes the target of the kingly charlatan.

The King of Paris

1917

The King of Paris poster
5.9

The lives of two young men-- A virtuous artist who's renounced a background of riches and a debonair swindler proclaimed by many the King of Paris-- intersect when the artist's mother becomes the target of the kingly charlatan.

The King of Paris

1917

The Retribution poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Retribution

1916

Song of Triumphant Love poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Song of Triumphant Love

1915

Song of Triumphant Love poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Song of Triumphant Love

1915

Idols poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Idols

1915

Cold Souls poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cold Souls

1914

Cold Souls poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cold Souls

1914

Child of the Big City poster
5.5

Seamstress Mary dreams of a better life outside a sweatshop. Her dreams come true when she draws the attention of the bourgeois Victor. She soon tires of him, and thanks to her, his money is almost gone. When he suggests settling down outside the big city, where his money could be enough for a modest living, she leaves him and picks up a new lover. A year later, he is living in a shabby, cold hovel, still pining away for her.

Child of the Big City

1914

Human Abysses poster
NR

“Chelovecheskie bezdny is an excellent sample of the “high style”, brought to perfection in Yevgeni Bauer’s melodramas. A stage set designer by training, Bauer relied on drapes, curtains and columns, which divided the set into sections but were also used to disguise the lights. Wall ledges, fireplaces and couches served the same purpose. All this led to an impressive depth and at times provided an almost stereoscopic effect.“ Peter Bagrov

Human Abysses

1916

Life in Death poster
9.0

A doctor kills and embalms a woman in order to preserve her beauty.

Life in Death

1914

Leon Drey poster
NR

A Jewish parvenu climbs the social ladder by seducing wealthy women.

Leon Drey

1915

Her Heroic Feat poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Her Heroic Feat

1914

The Happiness of Eternal Night poster
5.8

A blind woman is cured by a doctor, but when her sight is restored she accidently mistakes her kind lover for his wayward younger brother and no one deems to correct her ‘fearing for her psyche’.

The Happiness of Eternal Night

1915

Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy poster
5.7

This 1914 drama set in the WWI-era relates a heroic act carried out by a war nurse for the Red Cross (Dora Tschitorina) who has witnessed the death of her husband (Ivan Mosjoukine).

Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy

1914

Lina under Examination, or the Turbulent Corpse poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lina under Examination, or the Turbulent Corpse

1917

One Hundred Thousand poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

One Hundred Thousand

1915

Silent Witnesses poster
5.8

In order to allow another servant to go home to be with her children, Nastya agrees to serve in her place, as a maid in the household in which Nastya's grandfather is a porter. Soon afterwards, the woman who owns the house goes on a trip, leaving her son Pavel at home. Pavel is engaged to Ellen, but Ellen flirts openly with other men. Nastya and the servants quickly realize that Ellen is having an ongoing romantic affair with Baron von Rehren. This puts the servants, and especially the sensitive Nastya, in a painfully uncomfortable position.

Silent Witnesses

1914

A Revolutionary poster
6.1

In 1907, the Russian authorities learn that a revolutionary known as 'Granddad' is living in hiding with his brother. The revolutionary is soon arrested and sent to Siberia. After ten years of struggling to survive in harsh conditions, he is finally released when the Tsarist government is overthrown in February 1917. He is welcomed home as a hero, but he soon finds that even his own son has different views than he does about the future of Russia.

A Revolutionary

1917

The Alarm poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Alarm

1917