Viktor Tourjansky

Directing

Viktor Tourjansky

Born 1891-03-04 · Kiew, Ukraine

Victor Tourjansky (Russian: Виктор Туржанский; Ukrainian: Віктор Туржанський; 4 March 1891 – 13 August 1976), born Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhansky (Russian: Вячеслав Константинович Туржанский; Ukrainian: В'ячеслав Костянтинович Туржанський), was a Russian actor, screenwriter and film director who emigrated after the Russian Revolution of 1917. He worked in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States.

Acting credits

Blood Feud poster
8.2

An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs money.

Blood Feud

1961

No artwork available
7.0

Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Goncharov. Raisky falls in love with his second cousin Vera, but she coldly rejects his advances. He soon learns that Vera is having an affair with exiled official Mark Volokhov, with whom She is secretly dating. One day, Vera, in a fit of passion, gives herself to Volokhov, which she immediately regrets doing. Raisky and Tatyana Markovna suffer along with her having learned about Vera’s situation. Volokhov invites Vera to marry him but she refuses his proposal. After all these passions, calm comes and in the final frames of the picture, Raisky draws a portrait of Vera, and then sits down to write a long-planned novel.

The Precipice

1913

La fille sauvage poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La fille sauvage

1922

The Afterlife Wanderer poster
NR

Early lost Russian horror film.

The Afterlife Wanderer

1915

Brothers poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Brothers

1913

Sin and Redemption poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sin and Redemption

1922

Sorrows of Sarah poster
5.8

This film captures a stage production at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, accompanied by the choir of Moscow Synagogue. Brothers Isaak and Borukh are both in love with Sarra, but Sarra chooses Isaac and they got married. However, Sarra could not conceive for ten years, and their Rabbi tells them that according to Jewish law, they must divorce. Isaak's parents push him to sign the divorce paper, then their Rabbi drops the divorce paper to Sarra's feet. She tells Isaac about her grief, and Isaak commits suicide. Soon after-wards, Sore realizes that she is pregnant, but she is now single.

Sorrows of Sarah

1913

A Terrible Revenge poster
NR

A couple of lovers deal with an evil presence that is threatening them. Lost movie.

A Terrible Revenge

1913

No artwork available
NR

The plot of the farce is the adventures of a merchant woman at a resort; there is a pornographic element. The shots of landscapes of the southern coast of Crimea are successful, the acting is not artistic. The inscriptions are extremely vulgar. Kb Note: In the movie submitted for review by the board, the erotic scene in the 3rd part has been cut out and some cuts have been made in the same part.

Nanny Goats... Doe Kids... Goats...

1917

Behind The Doors Of The Salon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Behind The Doors Of The Salon

1913

No artwork available
8.0

On a carnival evening in Nice, when Jeanne Olier is to be engaged to a certain Natahlie Rouhais, a mysterious woman in black enter the room and violently demands the young girl to renounce this marriage. Jeanne, shaken and afraid, runs away i despair. He is followed by the lady in black.

Nuit de carnaval

1922

Behind the camera

Comedy Times Three poster
7.0

Art student Ulla lies to her older sister Ilse, claiming to be posing for sculptor Professor Viktor Arnim. To confront him, Ilse visits him that very evening. In her excitement, she forgets her handbag, which the professor immediately notices. Ilse clearly doesn't dislike Viktor and no longer wants to appear as the strict sister. So she lies to Viktor and his friend Philipp Geiger, who is also present, telling him that her handbag was stolen by a man named Meier. Viktor and Philipp immediately offer to retrieve it. Sure enough, the famous boxer Willi Meier lives in the neighborhood. Viktor and Philipp also find a woman's handbag in his apartment, which they secretly take with them.

Comedy Times Three

1949

La dame masquée poster
6.0

A young woman, forced into a loveless marriage, takes a lover.

La dame masquée

1924

La dame masquée poster
6.0

A young woman, forced into a loveless marriage, takes a lover.

La dame masquée

1924

Salto Mortale poster
8.0

After some initial difficulties, the daughter of a circus director who died in an accident follows in her father’s footsteps and takes over the business.

Salto Mortale

1954

La bataille poster
NR

During the Russo-Japanese War, an English officer on the ship of the Japanese falls in love with the wife of the commander.

La bataille

1934

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wolga Wolga

1928

Up to the Hilt poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Up to the Hilt

1922

The Postmaster's Daughter poster
7.0

A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing and marry her.Instead, a future of scandal and tragedy awaits her.

The Postmaster's Daughter

1938

The Gentry's Ball poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Gentry's Ball

1918

The Gentry's Ball poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Gentry's Ball

1918

The Triumph of Michael Strogoff poster
6.8

In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century Russia.

The Triumph of Michael Strogoff

1961

Follow Me poster
NR

Based on a play by Aleksandr Kaminskiĭ.

Follow Me

1917

Follow Me poster
NR

Based on a play by Aleksandr Kaminskiĭ.

Follow Me

1917

Eve Deceived poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eve Deceived

1918

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Secret Confession

1956

Student’s Hotel poster
10.0

Hotel des Etudients (Student's Hotel) was the great Tourjansky's sole directorial contribution of 1932. The scene is a Parisian rooming house, catering to students of both sexes. The heroine has a brief affair with a handsome young man, emerging from the experience a little wiser and a lot sadder. Her reputation ruined, the girl seems destined for the oblivion of the streets. But the boy finally realizes the harm he's caused, and in the last few minutes of the film finally does the "right thing." The critical consensus was that the film might have been better had their been fewer fake "exterior" sets and more genuine location filming.

Student’s Hotel

1932

Arlette Conquers Paris poster
6.5

When Arlette, born out of wedlock, moves from the countryside to the big city of Paris, she is drawn to the bohemian circles, where she can be herself. She quickly feels at home and befriends the painter Luc Lamballe and the student Marc Tissier. After some time, it becomes clear to both of them that they have fallen in love with Arlette. But unexpectedly, she has her eyes set on someone else: the serious civil servant Gérard Laurent.

Arlette Conquers Paris

1953

The Cossacks poster
7.5

Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and Czar Alexander.

The Cossacks

1960

The Cossacks poster
7.5

Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and Czar Alexander.

The Cossacks

1960

No artwork available
7.0

M. Monet, a talented musician, loves his young wife Louise dearly. But Louise has a lover, Maurice Dartois. When Monet finds out that Louise cheats on him he gets so furious that Louise, scared to death, leaves the marital home and finds refuge at Maurice's. The trouble is that Maurice, who wants Louise only for himself, kicks his crippled brother Léo and his young sister Jeanne, who lived with him, out of his place. A regretful decision which will entail dramatic consequences...

Chopin's Fifteenth Prelude

1922

No artwork available
7.0

M. Monet, a talented musician, loves his young wife Louise dearly. But Louise has a lover, Maurice Dartois. When Monet finds out that Louise cheats on him he gets so furious that Louise, scared to death, leaves the marital home and finds refuge at Maurice's. The trouble is that Maurice, who wants Louise only for himself, kicks his crippled brother Léo and his young sister Jeanne, who lived with him, out of his place. A regretful decision which will entail dramatic consequences...

Chopin's Fifteenth Prelude

1922

A Queen for Caesar poster
5.4

Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.

A Queen for Caesar

1962

Calvaire d'amour poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Calvaire d'amour

1923

Calvaire d'amour poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Calvaire d'amour

1923