Ukhar Kupets (1909)

Original title

Ухарь-купец

Directed by

Vasily Goncharov

Genre

silent film

Country

Russian Empire

Runtime

10 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A merchant travels home from a fair and meets a woman. The film is a silent short drama from the early 1900s based on a folk song.

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What happens

Ukhar Kupets (Russian: Ухарь купец; the title is variously translated as The Dashing Merchant or The Happy-Go-Lucky Merchant) is a 1909 silent (Russian-language intertitles) short drama film shot by the Moscow division of the French company Pathé Frères. It was the first hand-colored Russian film. It was based on the folk song known under the same title based on the 1859 short poem Ехал из ярмарки ухарь-купец by Ivan Nikitin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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