The Portrait

The Portrait — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 9, 1915
• Runtime
• 45 min
• Genres
• Horror, Thriller
• Director
• Władysław Starewicz

The Portrait — Cast

Andrey Gromov Painter Chartkov

I

Ivan Lazarev The pawnbroker

R

R. Krechetov Nikolay Gogol

V

V. Vasilyev