Boris de Fast
Also Known As: Boris Fastovitch, Boris De Fas
Biography: Boris de Fast (July 6, 1890 - ?after 1966) was a Russian actor, screenwriter, film editor and make-up artist. Born in Feodosia, Crimea in the Russian Empire, he emigrated to France where he worked in the county's film industry. His only American film was a strange villainous performance in Tempest(1928). Source: Article "Boris de Fast" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Feodossia, Crimea, Ukraine
Birthday: June 04, 1891
Deathday: February 01, 1973
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Gender: Male
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The Man with a Broken Ear
Overview: Colonel Fougas, stricken with catalepsy during the Russian campaign in 1812, was resuscitated after more than a century by French scholars and is not getting used to our time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-29
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Tempest
Overview: In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-27
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The Ship of Lost Men
Overview: A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the cook, he hides her away from the rowdy and dangerous crew.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-09-17
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Madonna of the Sleeping Cars
Overview: Lady Diana Wynham, a crumbling aristocrat, entrusts her new secretary, Prince Séliman, with a daring mission on whose success will depend the survival of her fortune.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-04-28
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Princesse Masha
Overview: A baby is abandoned near the Neva in St. Petersburg 1890. A teacher picks it up and takes the little girl. 20 years pass, Masha (Claudia Victrix) flee Russia because her father conspired against the Tsarist regime and is in the attention of the dangerous General Bourgassoff (Jean Toulout) . She goes to study medicine in Paris....
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-04-08
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Michel Strogoff
Overview: Adapted from Jules Verne's 1876 novel Michael Strogoff, the film tells the tale of a Russian courier named Michael Strogoff who has to dash across Russia with a vital message for the tsar's brother, wrestling with bears and fighting off ferocious Tatar rebels along the way. Captured by the Tatars, he is brought before their leader and blinded with a red hot sword by the executioner.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-06-30
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The Woman Disputed
Overview: An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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En plongée
Overview: The naval officer Maurice de Vergnes, tired of the extravagance of his fiancée Moussia, finds with pleasure a childhood friend: Anna. Jealous, Moussia breaks up with him and Maurice marries Anna. A few years later, Moussia reappears when war is declared. She is now a spy under the orders of Howell... This is a troncated version of a longer film.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Napoleon
Overview: A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-10
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Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures
Overview: George Manolescu (Ivan Mouskojine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York, along the way during a train ride to Monte Carlo he meets the voluptuous as always Cleo (Bigitte Helm) where they have a whirl wind romance which becomes short lived after she flees from him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-30
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La Femme d'une nuit
Overview: A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger, the Princess of Lystrie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-06-16
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La dame masquée
Overview: A young woman, forced into a loveless marriage, takes a lover.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-04-01
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The Ring of the Empress
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-01-27
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Le Prince charmant
Overview: Unkwown to the vast majority, Count Patrice is the crown prince of Simenia. One day he sails for the East on his yacht "Bengal" in the company of Christiane, a beautiful princess, in love with him. Chance has it that Patrice sets Anar, an Oriental beauty, free from the harem where she is held captive. Love is born between the two young people, which infuriates Christiane. Mad with jealousy, the vexed woman sets about preventing Patrice and Anar from marrying... by all means fair or foul!
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-03-27
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