{"id":147313,"date":"2026-05-28T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/?p=147313"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:57:54","slug":"new-films-in-the-database-edition-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/blog\/new-films-in-the-database-edition-i\/","title":{"rendered":"New Films in the Database: Edition I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Compiled from multiple catalogues and filmographies, the Daydreams <\/em>database continues to expand and engage new sources. This note provides an overview of some of the latest additions to Daydreams<\/em> and the researchers\u2019 work behind it. While some of the newly added films have not been discovered or formally annotated before, others simply come from the sources not previously covered by the database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film \u10d1\u10d4\u10e0\u10d8\u10d9\u10d0\u10dd\u10d1\u10d0-\u10e7\u10d4\u10d4\u10dc\u10dd\u10d1\u10d0 \/<\/em> Berikaoba-Keenoba<\/em><\/a> (1909, director Aleqsandre Tsutsunava) shot in Georgia by a Georgian crew is mentioned in various sources as an early documentary. However, in 1977, Georgian scholar Paata Iakashvili presented findings proving that the film was not a chronicle but in fact the first Georgian fiction film, a comedy with a script and a vast cast of actors. His article is not readily accessible, as it has not been digitized. The print-only version was identified in the National Library of Georgia in Tbilisi by Stasya Korotkova and may be consulted here<\/a>.\u00b9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fig. 1. A page from Paata Iakashvili\u2019s article featuring the only surviving photograph for \u10d1\u10d4\u10e0\u10d8\u10d9\u10d0\u10dd\u10d1\u10d0-\u10e7\u10d4\u10d4\u10dc\u10dd\u10d1\u10d0 \/ Berikaoba-Keenoba<\/em><\/a> (Aleqsandre Tsutsunava, 1909).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The drama Ne dlia menia pridet vesna \/ The Spring Will Not Come for Me<\/em><\/a> (1916, director A. Ivonin) was apparently not advertised in the press. However, its printed handbill survived and can be found in the collection of the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg.\u00b2 The existence of this handbill was referenced in a book chapter by Elena Komissarova.\u00b3 A libretto and titles of the film\u2019s four parts contained in the handbill were made available by the Daydreams <\/em>volunteer Tatiana Bolotnikova. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fig. 2. Front page of the handbill Ne dlia menia pridet vesna (Pokhmel\u2019e liubvi): Drama v 4 ch.<\/em> Moscow: Tipografiia T. D. \u201cN. Pomanskii, K. Zapol\u2019skii i Ko,\u201d 1916.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The film Chert \/ The Devil<\/em><\/a> (1918, director Vladimir Rudin) was identified by film historian Irina Zubatenko. In 2019, the I Vishnevskii readings<\/em> conference hosted a screening of several unattributed film fragments from the Gosfilmofond\u2019s collection. Zubatenko matched one of the fragments with promotional stills from the collection of the State Historical Museum captioned \u201cstills from the film Chert<\/em>. Taldykin\u2019s firm. 1917.\u201d She found a film of the same name advertised as one of the productions of V. A. Taldykina\u2019s film company Ekran.\u2074 With the help of Peter Bagrov, she established that the cast from the advertisement matches the cast featured on the stills. The film\u2019s poster was found by Stasya Korotkova in the National Electronic Library (\u041d\u042d\u0411) that further confirmed the film\u2019s production as a completed one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fig. 3. Promotional still for Chert<\/em> \/ The Devil<\/em> (1918, director Vladimir Rudin). State Historical Museum<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Film archivist Alexandra Ustiuzhanina discovered advertisements of the film V lapakh zhizni (U zhizni v lapakh) \/ In the Clutches of Life<\/em><\/a> (1918, director unknown) based on Knut Hamsun\u2019s play of the same name. The advertisements were dated 1917 and 1918 and belonged to V. Vengerov i K\u2e30 and its successor company Merkazor.\u2075 It is not clear whether the film had been released at the same time with this promotional campaign, but it has most probably been completed and shown in 1922; Ustiuzhanina found a film review and an article dedicated to an original film script by Evgenii Khokhlov based on the same play.\u2076 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fig. 4. Advertisement mentioning the pre-production of U zhizni v lapakh<\/em>. Aktsionernoie Obshchestvo Merkazor [Advertisement], Sine-Fono<\/em>, nos. 13\u201314 (1917), n.p.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Daydreams <\/em>database team welcomes suggestions for new materials and sources not yet covered. They can be sent to contact@daydreams.museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suggested Citation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Korotkova, Stasya. \u201cNew Films in the Database: Edition I.\u201d In Daydreams Database: Cinema of the Russian Empire and Beyond<\/em>, edited by Anna Kovalova, developed by Alexander Grebenkov, 2026. URL: https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/blog\/new-films-in-the-database-edition-i\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Compiled from multiple catalogues and filmographies, the Daydreams database continues to expand and engage new sources. This note provides an overview of some of the latest additions to Daydreams and the researchers\u2019 work behind it. While some of the newly added films have not been discovered or formally annotated before, others simply come from the sources not previously covered by the database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":147335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2435],"tags":[],"subject":[],"class_list":["post-147313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148343,"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147313\/revisions\/148343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147313"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daydreams.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=147313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}