A Spectre Haunts Europe (1923)

1h 10m
Running Time

February 13, 1923
Release Date

A Spectre Haunts Europe (1923)

1h 10m
Running Time

February 13, 1923
Release Date

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VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Administration)

Plot.

Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been banished here due to his confrontational activities. The two fall in love but meet a violent end when the revolutionaries, led by Elka's father, destroy the palace.

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Release Date
February 13, 1923

Original Name
Призрак бродит по Европе

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 10m

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A Spectre Haunts Europe (Russian: Призрак бродит по Европе, romanized: Prizrak brodit po Evrope) is a 1923 Soviet silent horror film directed by Vladimir Gardin and written by Georgi Tasin. It was made by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic's production company VUFKU. It is based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story The Masque of the Red Death. The film features a massacre on the Odessa Steps which may have served as an inspiration for the more famous scene in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Vladimir Yegorov. Cameraman Boris Zavalev filmed the movie on location in Crimea. Many reference sources list the film as 1921, but it was actually only released in 1922.

This is one of the few silent horror films ever made in Russia, the other notable titles being The Queen of Spades (1910 and 1916) and The Vij (1908 and 1916).

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