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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 7
    part name: Les caprices du destin
  title info:
    title: Caprices du destin
  title info:
    title: Whims of fate
  title info:
    title: Maison du mystère
    part number: Septième episode
  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: Fiction films.
  genre: Silent films.
  genre: Films de fiction.
  genre: Films muets.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: zxx
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (46 minutes)
  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 Cinémathèque française. 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 of Fear, Diabolique) (who gives the "Curses! Foiled again!" school of melodramatic villainy a new lease on life), and the astonishing Nicolas Koline.
  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 October 31, 2019).
  note: Ivan Mozzhukhin-Mosjoukine, Charles Vanel, Nicolas Koline, Hélène Darly, Simone Genevois.
  note: Silent film with intertitles in French, with English subtitles.
  subject:
    topic: Man-woman relationships
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
    genre: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Man-woman relationships
  subject:
    topic: Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
  classification: 791.43/75
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 191031
    record change date: 20241201234920.7
    record identifier: in00005599683
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng