Ludzie bez jutra (English: People with no Tomorrow, it was also shown under several English titles, among them At the Time of the Czars and The Bartenieff Affair)[1] is a 1921 Polish silent film by director Aleksander Hertz.
The film was considered lost for almost a hundred years before being rediscovered in Germany in 2015.
[5] The film is based on the real life ill-starred love affair between Polish actress Maria Wisnowska and Russian cavalry officer Alexander Bartenev.
The affair led to Bartenev eventually killing Wisnowska as part of a suicide pact.
[6] The film was met with negative reactions upon its release, it became controversial with both government censors and general audiences for portraying the events of the murder realistically.