Boris SUSHKEVICH
Борис СУШКЕВИЧ
Boris SOUCHKEVITCH
Russia, 1916, 1302m 
Black and white, silent, fiction
Tsvety zapozdalye
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 Tsvety zapozdalye

Russian subtitle : Доктор Топорков
 
Directed by : Boris SUSHKEVICH (Борис СУШКЕВИЧ)
Based on an Anton Chekhov's short story
 
Cast
Olga BAKLANOVA (Ольга БАКЛАНОВА) ...Marusya
Lidia DEYKUN (Лидия ДЕЙКУН) ...Marusya's mother
Boris SUSHKEVICH (Борис СУШКЕВИЧ) ...doctor Toporkov
 
Cinematography : Aleksandr STANKE (Александр СТАНКЕ)
Production design : Sergey KOZLOVSKI (Сергей КОЗЛОВСКИЙ)
Production : V. Vengerov i V.Gardin (Т/д «В. Венгеров и В. Гардин»)
Release date in Russia : 19/03/1917
 

Plot synopsis
Princess Marusya fell in love with her attending physician Toporkov, who didn’t notice her love and married a rich merchant. In several years he had to treat her again and at last her strong feeling melted his stony heart, but it was late – Marusya died.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' Festival, Bologna (Italy), 2016
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005