The Portrait

A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived.

Cast

Andrey Gromov

as Painter Chartkov

Ivan Lazarev

as The pawnbroker

R. Krechetov

as Nikolay Gogol

V. Vasilyev

as

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