Romance with a Double Bass (1911)

Original title

Роман с контрабасом

Directed by

Kai Hansen

Genre

silent film

Country

Russian Empire

Runtime

8 min

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent comedy short follows a musician whose double bass gets involved in a series of mishaps. Based on a Chekhov story, it shows a day when a simple performance goes wrong.

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What happens

Romance with Double-Bass is a Russian silent comedy short film released in 1911. Directed by Kai Hanson, it is based on the 1886 short story of the same name by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov. The film was released seven years after his death, the time Chekhov thought people would stop reading his work. This is the second film adaptation of Chekhov's writings and the first that has been preserved — the 1909 adaptation of Surgery by Pyotr Chardynin is considered to be lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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