The Portrait (1915 film)

The Portrait (Russian: Портрет) is a 1915 Russian film directed by Ladislas Starevich.

Only 22 minutes of 45 minutes of the film still exist today.

[1][2][3] The film tells about a man who acquires a portrait of an old man, hangs him on a wall in his house and tries to fall asleep, but for some reason he cannot, as a result of which he decides to hang a portrait.

And suddenly the old man comes out of the picture and starts to the main character...[4]

The surviving footage from The Portrait