Daydreams

About Daydreams

Daydreams (Грёзы) is a 1915 Russian silent film directed by Yevgeni Bauer.

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Daydreams (Грёзы) is a 1915 Russian silent film directed by Yevgeni Bauer.

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Plot

Sergei is devastated by the death of his beloved wife Yelena. He becomes more and more obsessed by her and more and more often sees visions of her ghost. He starts an affair with an actress who looks like his dead wife but progressively drifts into madness with dramatic consequences.

Production

Daydreams was produced by A. Khanzhonkov and Co. the company created by Aleksandr Khanzhonkov, Russia's first cinema entrepreneur.

Film crew

Director: Evgeny Bauer

Scriptwriters: M. Basov and Valentin Turkin

Cameraman: Boris Zavelev

Producer: Alexander Khanzhonkov

Cast

Alexandr Vyrubov as Sergei Nikolaevich Nedelin

F. Werchowzewa as Yelena, his wife

Viktor Arens as Solski, a painter

N. Chernobajewa as Tina Wlarskaja, an actress

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Notable quotes

“Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreamed at all.”
— Hans Christian Andersen Ole Lukøje
“You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them.”
— Harlan Ellison, "Delusion for a Dragon Slayer" (1966)
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”
— Carl Jung, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1934).
“Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.”
— Lewis Mumford in Interpretations and Forecasts (1967)
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
— Henry David Thoreau, in "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" (1849).
“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act IV, scene 1, line 211.

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