Bauer – The Dying Swan

Stills from another Bauer silent film, The Dying Swan (Умирающая Лебедь), 1916, the story of a mute ballet dancer murdered by an artist who tries too hard to capture an image of death in his painting. The film contains a beautiful and very surreal nightmare dream sequence.

Here’s the artist trying to capture images of death:

Here’s a clip of actress Karalli dancing the Dying Swan followed by the nightmare sequence:

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