Masquerade

A slow, brooding plunge into jealousy and pride, staged with theatrical grandeur and a cold, tragic inevitability.

Directed by

Sergei Gerasimov

Genres

Drama

Starring

Nikolai Mordvinov, Tamara Makarova, Mikhail Sadovsky

Overview

Taken from a Lermontov play, the story begins when beautiful Nina loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing whose bracelet it belongs to, she gives it to an ardent Calvary officer admirer at the ball. This leads to deeper and deeper incisions upon the urbane social body of Tsarist Russia. A drama of pride, marital distrust, gambling, infidelity and humiliation twirls around the decaying corpse of a perverted social class.

How it feels

Dark, melancholic, tense and cynical. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Betrayal, guilt, obsession, class

Content

Mild violence and sexual content. No gore or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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