Władysław Starewicz Movies

The film tells the story of Judas and Satan wandering the world in search of a virgin who could become the mother of the new Evil.

Not finished.

While the twelve strokes of midnight slowly sound in the night and the lights go out in the windows of old Montmartre, a devil is born in a puddle of...

A reconstruction of mating rituals of stag beetles

A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long,...

Formerly Prince Tchao-sin loved Princess Hadjuin-li, but the wicked Lao-Tchang opposed their happiness. Eager to escape him, the two lovers set out...

The Mascot and his wife are on an island. When going out to fish, Mascot ends up being enchanted by a mermaid.

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.

When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. The lily stands in splendour beside a...

The frogs have a democracy, but they beseech Jupiter to send them a king. Jupiter can hardly believe this amphibian foolishness, so he sends them a...

A toy stuffed dog has just been sewn together when it hears a young child ask for an orange. The child's mother explains that they have no money, and...

The last of Starewicz's surviving Russian shorts

A drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his...

Directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz.

A small group of animals gathers around a frozen pond. The animals then play together on the ice and in the snow. Later, when the season changes,...

The animated combat by night between stag beetles.