“It’s My Fault that I Can’t Write for Kinemo”. Aleksandr Kuprin and the Cinema
Abstract
The article is focused on Aleksandr Kuprin’s scripts and screen versions of his works of the 1910s–1930s. Kuprin was one of the first Russian classical writers who started to write screen plays. He was deeply interested in the new art of cinema. On the other hand, film producers were happy to involve this popular writer in their business. But in Kuprin’s cinematography (that includes films shot both before and after the revolution) one can hardly find a film that could satisfy the writer. Even cooperation with a famous actor and theatre director Boris Glagolin resulted in great disappointment for Kuprin: he had to renounce their film “The
Coward” (1914). By analyzing long-term relationship between Aleksandr Kuprin and the cinema the article compares his scripts with screen versions of his literary works that often appeared to be far more successful.
Keywords:
Kuprin, pre-revolutionary cinema, cinema of the Russian diaspora, script, screen version
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