Film

The Dagger Woman

1916 · Drama

Based on Leonid Andreyev's play Ekaterina Ivanovna.

Ivan Savonsky, popular society artist, meets Olga Kartoff, a young woman high in social circles, and while she is instantly attracted by him, he sees in her only the perfect model for his picture, "The Dagger Woman." Studying her, and by carefully playing on her emotions he gains her confidence, and afterward she consents to pose for him. The picture completed, she is grieved and then angered to discover that Ivan's interest rests solely in it, and how it will fare at the exhibition. She pleads with him in vain. The picture is pronounced a masterpiece, and Ivan is in his triumph as he returns to his studio. Here Olga has secreted herself. Humiliated by the reports circulated regarding herself and the artist, and unable longer to bear his disinterest she plunges a dagger to his heart and kills him.

Ivan Mosjoukine

Sakhovskiy, the painter

Olga Gzovskaya

Lena

Nikolai Panov

Rokotov, Lena's father

Zoia Karabanova

• Yakov ProtazanovDirector
• Nicolas RimskyWriter
• Leonid AndreyevNovel

Release date

May 31, 1916

Status

Released

Original language

xx

Genres

Drama

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