The Queen of Spades (1916)
While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
Director: Yakov Protazanov
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Ivan Mosjoukine as Hermann |
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Vera Orlova as Lizaveta |
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Nikolai Panov as Count of Saint-Germain |
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Yelizaveta Shebueva as The Countess |
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Tatiana Duvan as The countess (young) |
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Polikarp Pavlov as The Count |
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Georg Asagaroff as Tomskiy |
| Directing | Yakov Protazanov | Director |
| Directing | Georg Asagaroff | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Fyodor Otsep | Writer |
| Writing | Yakov Protazanov | Writer |
| Camera | Yevgeni Slavinsky | Director of Photography |
| Art | Vladimir Ballyuzek | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Aleksey Shargalin | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nikolay Vorobyev | Costume Design |
| Art | S. Lilienberg | Production Design |
| Art | Valeriy Pschibytnevskiy | Production Design |
| Writing | Alexander Pushkin | Short Story |
| Production | Joseph N. Ermolieff | Producer |
