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Ukhar Kupets (Russian: Ухарь купец; the title is variously translated as The Dashing Merchant[1] or The Happy-Go-Lucky Merchant) is a 1909 silent (Russian-language intertitles) short drama film shot by the Moscow division of the French company Pathé Frères. It was the first hand-colored Russian film.[1] It was based on the folk song known under the same title based on the 1859 short poem Ехал из ярмарки ухарь-купец by Ivan Nikitin.[2]
- ^ a b Eleanor Rees, Designing Russian Cinema. The Production Artist and the Material Environment in Silent Era Film, 2022, p. 53
- ^ Ехал из ярмарки ухарь-купец, text of the song