A Narrow Escape
1920 · Movie · 60 min. · France
The marquis de Granier would like his son Charles to end his current relationship for a respectable marriage. His younger brother Octave tries to help but Yvonne Lelys tricks him and he nearly leaves his family for the dancer. He even follows her to Constantinople. He falls asleep while writing to his father and dreams that he is a movie actor who, driven by poverty, sneaks into his father's home to rob him. As his father catches him, he kills him. Thankfully, it was all a dream.
Direction Yakov Protazanov
Cast Ivan Mozzhukhin · Valentine Dark · Nathalie Lissenko · Dimitri Buchowetzki · Alexandre Colas · Camille Bardou · Nicolas Koline · Vera Orlova · Nicolas Panoff
Screenplay Ivan Mozzhukhin · Yakov Protazanov · Alexandre Volkoff
Cinematography Fédote Bourgasoff · Nikolai Toporkoff
Original title L'angoissante aventure
Also known as Agonizing Adventure
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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