The Polish Dancer

1917 [POLISH]

Action / Drama / Romance

4
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 201 201

Plot summary

A wild young girl runs away from her parents' house to support herself and attracts the attentions of a married man, who is prepared to abandon his wife and child for her.

Director

Aleksander Hertz Photo
Aleksander Hertz

Top cast

Pola Negri Photo
Pola Negri as Pola Basznikow
Witold Kuncewicz Photo
Witold Kuncewicz as Aleksy
Jan Pawlowski Photo
Jan Pawlowski as Dymitr
Maria Duleba Photo
Maria Duleba as Sonia
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584.1 MB
978*720
Polish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   pl  
18.75 fps
1 hr 3 min
Seeds ...
1.06 GB
1456*1072
Polish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   pl  
18.75 fps
1 hr 3 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by boblipton 6 / 10

Good Girls Go To Heaven. Pola Negri Moves To The City

Pola Negri is a small-town girl with great ambition and few morals. She steals money from her lover to go to the city, where she hopes to become a star dancer. But there are predators in the big city far more dangerous than she.I suppose one could call this "boldly" acted, but really, it seems histrionic, to choose a ten-dollar word to ease the sting. Miss Negri is lovely, and the dance numbers are well performed, but the acting is overdone. Perhaps this is because this is a Polish film. I suspect those were largely produced for the local market, where this sort of performance was preferred. Likely the shortage of films in the war period, as well as Miss Negri's youthful vivacity made it a hit.Hertz' compositions suggest to me that he was strongly influenced by the pre-Academician Russian cinema. That is hardly surprising.
Reviewed by leifhelland 5 / 10

The Earliest Surviving Pola Negri Film!

And if that's not enough to recommend it, the immortal Pola Negri gives a well-rounded performance and her star appeal is abundantly clear even at this early stage of her career.The film itself doesn't have much to recommend it beyond Miss Negri, but the remastered print I viewed on YouTube was quite good and -with a nice piano score - is a pleasant enough way to see the embryonic Pola absolutely poised to take the world by storm.Although often described as a "vamp" by film writers, it certainly does a disservice to this legendary star to limit her appeal to this clichéd stereotype for Pola is so much more in every performance.Although the "vamp" outline is contained in the film - young woman steals money from a beau, and runs away from her family to the big city were she became a famous dancer and steals a married man from his wife & daughter - Pola's character retains the audience's sympathy and does the right thing in the end.It's easy to see why Pola would shortly take Europe and America by storm and let's hope more of her filmography continues to be rediscovered and saved.
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