The Lady and the Hooligan
The Lady and the Hooligan | |
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Written by | Vladimir Mayakovsky |
Based on | La maestrina degli operai by Edmondo De Amicis |
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Cinematography | Yevgeni Slavinsky |
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Running time | 43 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Languages | Silent film with Russian intertitles |
The Lady and the Hooligan (Russian: Барышня и хулиган, romanized: Baryshnya i khuligan) is a 1918 Russian silent film co-directed by Vladimir Mayakovsky and . The script, written by Mayakovsky, is based on the play La maestrina degli operai (The Workers' Young Schoolmistress) by Edmondo De Amicis.
Plot summary[]
A young schoolmistress arrives in a small village to teach reading and writing to boys and men. A hooligan sees her on the street and falls in love with her. Soon he begins to attend her classes. When one lesson is disturbed by one of the students, he beats him. The student seeks revenge with the help of his father and some of his friends. The hooligan is stabbed to death in a fight. Before dying, he asks his mother to call the schoolmistress. After the schoolmistress has kissed him on the lips, he closes his eyes and dies.
Cast[]
- Vladimir Mayakovsky—Lava, the hooligan
- Aleksandra Rebikova—the schoolmistress
- Fyodor Dunaev—the director of the school
- —the hooligan's classmate
Distribution[]
On 1 May (May Day), 1919, the film was shown in mass viewings in Moscow and Leningrad.[1]
Analysis and Significance[]
The film includes "fast-paced editing and (limited) shot-reverse-shot editing patterns."[1]
References[]
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Lady and the Hooligan. |
- Baryshnya i khuligan at IMDb
- Lady and the Hooligan available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An852TsSmV0
- 1918 films
- Russian films
- Russian silent films
- Russian black-and-white films
- Films based on works by Edmondo De Amicis
- Films of the Russian Empire
- Russian films based on plays
- Russian film stubs
- 1910s film stubs