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Russian and French actor, director.
He made his film debut in 1914 in the four-episode criminal drama Sashka the Seminarist (Russian Rocambole), which was released in cinemas in January 1915.
In 1916-1917, he starred in many films by Yevgeny Bauer, including "Retribution" (1916), "Nabat" (1917), "Revolutionary" (1917).
In 1917, in the joint-stock company A.
Khanzhonkov, he directed the film "Black Love" as a director.
In 1919, he starred in the anti-Bolshevik propaganda campaign "Life - to the Motherland, honor - to no one.
" In 1920 he emigrated to France.
Under the name V.
de Stry, he starred in the films The Meaning of Death (Le sens de la mort, 1922) by Yakov Protazanov and Golgotha of Love (Calvaire d`amour, 1923) by Viktor Turzhansky.
From 1923 he worked in Germany.
He directed the films The Abyss of the Big City (Tiefen der Großstadt, 1924), Taras Bulba (1924), The Tsar’s Adjutant (Adjutant des Zaren, 1928) with Ivan Mozzhukhin, The Amusements of the Empress (Spielereien einer Kaiserin, 1929) with Lil Dagover as Catherine I and "Troika" (Troika, 1930).
In 1931-1938 he worked in France, made films "Sergeant X" (Le Sergent X, 1931), "Barge Haulers on the Volga" (Les Bateliers de la Volga, 1936), "Princely Nights" (Nuits de princes, 1938).
In 1935, he wrote the screenplay for the French film adaptation of Crime et châtiment.
In 1945 he directed the film Flesh and Soul (La Carne e l'anima) in Italy, directed by his friend Boris Konstantinovich Bilinsky.
In 1945 he left for the USA.
Lived there under the name Vlad Strevy.
This melodrama was directed by an émigré Russian from a story by Corrado Alvaro and Emanuele Caracciolo. The latter was murdered by the Nazis in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, before the film’s post-war release. Featuring Miranda and Girotti prior to neo-realist stardom.
In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi being to have spent the night with the wife of a colonel, he allows himself to be condemned so as not to compromise the latter. He manages to escape and hides in the guise of a poor boatman. One day, the truth comes out, the colonel commits suicide and the lovers are finally reunited.
An imaginative wedding scene shot in silhouette, begins a tale of murder blackmail and romance covering a period of about 18 years, ending around 1923. Film composed of 10 episodes: 1.- L'Ami felon. 2.- Le secret de L'etang. 3.- L'Ambition au service de la haine. 4.- L'Implacable verdict. 5.- Le Pont vivant. 6.- La Voix du sang. 7.- Les Caprices du destin. 8.- En Champ clos. 9.- Les Angoisses de Corradin. 10.- Le Triomphe de L'amour.
In 1907, the Russian authorities learn that a revolutionary known as 'Granddad' is living in hiding with his brother. The revolutionary is soon arrested and sent to Siberia. After ten years of struggling to survive in harsh conditions, he is finally released when the Tsarist government is overthrown in February 1917. He is welcomed home as a hero, but he soon finds that even his own son has different views than he does about the future of Russia.