Film

The Portrait

6.5191545mHorror Thriller

Director: Władysław Starewicz
Year: 1915

A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived.

Top cast

Andrey Gromov

Painter Chartkov

Ivan Lazarev

The pawnbroker

R. Krechetov

Nikolay Gogol

V. Vasilyev

Directed by

Władysław Starewicz

Written by

Nikolai Gogol