Assassination of the Grand Duke Serge (1905)

Original title

Assassinat du grand-duc Serge

Directed by

Lucien Nonguet

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

France

Runtime

2 min

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This French silent short film re-enacts the real life assassination of a Russian grand duke that happened a few months earlier in Moscow. It shows the event in a straightforward docudrama style.

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What happens

L'assassinat du grand-duc Serge, is a 1905 French silent short film directed by Lucien Nonguet, and distributed in English-speaking countries under the titles Assassination of the Grand Duke Serge and Assassination of the King of Serbia. The film is a docudrama dramatising the re-enactment of the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia that had taken place a few months before in Moscow. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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