Boris de Fast

Boris de Fast

Born: June 4, 1891
Died: February 1, 1973
in Feodossia, Crimea, Ukraine
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).

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The Man with a Broken Ear
Title: The Man with a Broken Ear
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
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.
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One night woman
Title: One night woman
Character: The Lystrian doorman
Released: June 16, 1930
Type: Movie
A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounced his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger. He ends up finding her, the heiress princess Lystrie. The German version (Königin einer Nacht) was an operetta, the Italian version (La donna di una notte) was a comedy, while the French version (La Femme d'une nuit) was a dramatic film.
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The Ring of the Empress
Title: The Ring of the Empress
Released: January 27, 1930
Type: Movie
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The Ship of Lost Men
Title: The Ship of Lost Men
Character: The tattooed sailor
Released: September 17, 1929
Type: Movie
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.
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Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures
Title: Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures
Released: April 30, 1929
Type: Movie
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.
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The Woman Disputed
Title: The Woman Disputed
Character: Passerby
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
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Tempest
Title: Tempest
Character: The Peddler
Released: May 27, 1928
Type: Movie
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.
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Madonna of the Sleeping Cars
Title: Madonna of the Sleeping Cars
Character: Mr. Varichkine
Released: April 28, 1928
Type: Movie
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.
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Princesse Masha
Title: Princesse Masha
Character: Tzerem Lama
Released: April 8, 1928
Type: Movie
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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Napoléon
Title: Napoléon
Character: The Green Eye
Released: April 7, 1927
Type: Movie
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.
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Michel Strogoff
Title: Michel Strogoff
Character: Féofar-Khan
Released: June 30, 1926
Type: Movie
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.
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En plongée
Title: En plongée
Character: John
Released: January 1, 1926
Type: Movie
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.
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La dame masquée
Title: La dame masquée
Character: Robin
Released: April 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A young woman, forced into a loveless marriage, takes a lover.