Taras Bulba (1909)

Directed by

Alexander Drankov

Genre

drama film, silent film, historical film

Country

Russian Empire

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent short film from 1909 based on Nikolai Gogol's novel. It tells the story of a Cossack leader in a historical setting.

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What happens

Taras Bulba, (Russian: Тарас Бульба) is a 1909 Russian drama short film directed by Aleksandr Drankov. It was a silent film, based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. In 1962, a long film of the same name, based loosely on Gogol's novel, premiered. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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