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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Maison du mystère
    part number: Episode 3
    part name: L'ambition au service de la haine
  title info:
    title: Ambition in the service of hate
  title info:
    title: House of mystery
  title info:
    title: Ambition au service de la haine
  name:
    name part: Volkov, Aleksandr
    name part: 1885-1942
    role:
      role term: director.
  name:
    name part: Films Albatros (Firm)
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Drama.
  genre: Fiction films.
  genre: Silent films.
  genre: Films muets.
  genre: Films de fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (34 min.)
  abstract: Serial films, or ciné romans were well-established in France before World War I, where they are most closely identified with writer-director Louis Feuillade. These melodramas for adult audiences were unlike American serials that were targeted primarily at youngsters. At Albatros, Russian émigré producer Joseph Ermolieff produced three serials in 1921, all adapted from roman-feuilletons by the phenomenally successful Jules Mary, a specialist in the genre, who penned many a famous melodrama around the theme of the miscarriage of justice - a theme that must have had special appeal for the unjustly displaced technicians and artists of Ermolieff's Moscow and Yalta studios. The first two serials have not left a trace in the annals of film archives. But The House of Mystery (La Maison du mystère), Ermolieff's third serial, (begun in the summer of 1921 and not completed until 1923) by Alexandre Volkoff (with fellow studio director Viatcheslav Tourjansky providing some important and uncredited second-unit work), is a triumph of the genre and a complete delight that not only survived, but also was restored in its original ten-episode format by the Cinematheque Francaise. Flicker Alley and the Blackhawk Films Collection are proud to present for the first time on DVD this six-and-a-half-hour epic of stylish elegance and narrative imagination, with optional English subtitles by Lenny Borger and a brand-new score by composer Neil Brand. The involved plot of La Maison du mystère centers around Julien Villandrit (Ivan Mosjoukine) and his star-crossed courtship to Régine de Bettigny (Hélène Darly), that inspires bitterness and jealousy in Henri Corradin (Charles Vanel), Julien's long-time associate and secret rival in love. For Mosjoukine, who contracted typhoid fever during the course of production, it remains one of the ultimate consecrations to his multifarious talents as actor, writer, and even make-up artist. But the film also opened doors for Vanel (Les Misérables, The Wages o…
  target audience: adult
  note: mise en scène, Alexandre Volkoff ; d'après le célèbre roman de Jules Mary ; adapté à l'écran par Alexandre Volkoff et Ivan Mosjoukine.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed March 07, 2017).
  note: Ivan Mozzhukhin-Mosjoukine, Charles Vanel, Nicolas Koline, Hélène Darly, Simone Genevois.
  note: Silent film with title cards in French.
  subject:
    topic: Man-woman relationships
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Man-woman relationships
  subject:
    topic: Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 170307
    record change date: 20241201225830.1
    record identifier: in00005540870
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng