Pushkin’s “Scene from Faust“ (subtitled)

Another segment of the Shveitser film malenkie tragedii (Little Tragedies). This is not actually part of what are usually called the Little Tragedies; Pushkin wrote the scene several years earlier. In the card-playing sequence near the end, four lines from an additional set of fragments left by Pushkin on the Faust theme (“Hush! . . . to pass eternity“) are interpolated by the filmmaker, with one line slightly modified. The words appearing on screen at the end, over the image of Pushkin’s death mask, (“