Grigori LIBKEN
Григорий ЛИБКЕН
Grigori LIBKEN
Sigismund VESELOVSKY
Сигизмунд ВЕСЕЛОВСКИЙ
Sigismund VESSELOVSKI
Russian Empire, 1915, 40mn 
fiction
Peter Smirnov's Sons
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Петра Смирнова сыновья

 

 Les Fils de Peter Smirnov

 Petra Smirnova synovya

 
Directed by : Grigori LIBKEN (Григорий ЛИБКЕН), Sigismund VESELOVSKY (Сигизмунд ВЕСЕЛОВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Amo BEK-NAZAROV / BEK-NAZARYAN (Амо БЕК-НАЗАРОВ / БЕК-НАЗАРЯН) ...Aleksey
 
Produced by : Grigori LIBKEN (Григорий ЛИБКЕН)
 

Plot synopsis
By selling his vodka, Pyotr Volzhin became very rich. And, as if to punish the father, the punishment fell on the children. The younger son Alexei, calm, gentle, was hunchbacked and ugly, and the eldest, Mikhail, a libertine and party animal, dishonored his father's name and prepared his own death. Spending a lot of money, Mikhail in difficult times ran to the loan shark Gassanov to borrow money from him. The loan shark had two daughters, and one of them, the beautiful Mara, fell in love with Mikhail. And he liked dark beauty. One day, having run out of money and his father having refused to give him any, Mikhail went to the loan shark and offered Mara to run away with him. That same night, Mara left home, taking bills and money from her father's cash register. In anger, the loan shark sent a protest to the old man Volzhin against Mikhail's bill of exchange, which he had kept separately, with a false signature of his father. Old Volzhin was sick. He had just drawn up a will in which he refused half of the continuation of charitable acts, and gave the rest to his son Alexei. The news of the loan shark was a heavy blow and he soon died in Alexei's arms ... Alexei discovered that Mikhail was in terrible poverty, called his brother and announced that he was taking him to his father's business. Soon Alexey married the beautiful widow Zvereva. During the excommunication of her husband, Zvereva got along with Mikhail. Poor Mara was forgotten. In desperation, she revealed the truth to Alexei. He started following. One day, returning home unexpectedly at night, he found his wife in Mikhail's arms. Mad with rage, Alexei rushed towards the traitor. But Mikhail grabbed him and, in the heat of a terrible struggle, strangled him. Desperate, the fratricide stood near the corpse. And only the cry of his mistress dragged him from the bedroom to the barn which was on fire. Mikhail saw Mara, like a demon of revenge, waiting for him. "You are in my hands now," she declared, "kill the lovebird with your own hands, as you killed your brother, or you will both die..." And she disappeared. But Mikhail and Anna decided to run to the other side of Lake Nero. The inexorable Mara caught up with them - she shot Mikhail and, stabbing the evil woman with a dagger, threw her into the waves of the lake ... But the shocked Mara was stunned by the corpse of her lover ... So the sons of Peter Volzhin died ... And the wonderful Lake Nero, washing Rostov the Great, preserved in its depths the reflection of this great tragedy.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Festival of Archival Films (Formerly "Belye Stolby"), Moscow (Russia), 2022