The Picture of Dorian Grey (1915 film)

For the American adaptation from the same year, see The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915 film).

The Picture of Dorian Grey
Directed by	Vsevolod Meyerhold Mikhail Doronin
Written by	Vsevolod Meyerhold
Based on	The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 novel by Oscar Wilde
Starring	Varvara Yanova Vsevolod Meyerhold Gustav Enriton
Cinematography	Aleksandr Levitsky
Release date	1915 (1915)
Running time	22 minutes
Country	Russia
Languages	Silent Russian intertitles

The Picture of Dorian Grey (Russian: Портрет Дориана Грея) was a 1915 Russian silent drama film based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel of the same title. Directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold and Mikhail Doronin, with art direction by Vladimir Yegorov, this screen adaptation should not be confused with another film also released in 1915, one produced by the Thanhouser Company in the United States and starring actor Harris Gordon. A print of Thanhouser's version is preserved in the Library of Congress, and digitized portions of that motion picture are available on YouTube and on other streaming services. No footage, however, from this Russian release is listed among the holdings of major film repositories around the world, so it is currently presumed to be lost.

Cast

• Varvara Yanova as Dorian Grey
• Vsevolod Meyerhold as Lord Henry Wotton
• G. Enriton
• P. Belova
• Doronin
• Yelizaveta Uvarova
• Alexandre Volkoff

See also

• Adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Bibliography

• Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.

External links

• The Picture of Dorian Grey at IMDb
• The Picture of Dorian Grey at AllMovie