Underplayed Gems

Satan Triumphant (1917)

Satan Triumphant poster
Original title
Сатана ликующий
Directed by
Yakov Protazanov
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Russian Republic, Russian Empire
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

This is a 1917 Russian silent film in two episodes. Only partial footage survives with missing endings. The story follows temptation and moral struggle, though the exact plot is unclear due to lost scenes.

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What happens

Satan Triumphant (Russian: Сатана ликующий, romanized: Satana likuyushchiy) is a 1917 silent film in Russian directed by Yakov Protazanov. The film has not survived in its entirety; the endings of both episodes are missing. Some of the film's inscriptions were lost. They were restored thanks to the help of Rolf Lindfors, the Curator of the Swedish Film Archives, who found the film's inscriptions in the Swedish Film Censorship Archive. It also became known that in 1919 the film was forbidden by the Swedish censorship to be shown in the country. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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