Studia Litterarum Studia Litterarum 2500-4247 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2025-10-3-86-113 Research Article Articles From Literature to Cinema: Transformation of the Image of the “Dead Beauty” in E. Bauer’s Screen Adaptations of Stories by I. Turgenev and G. Rodenbach Andreichuk Kseniia R. red@studlit.ru March 09, 2024 2025 February 04, 2024 The article examines the transformation of the literary and pictorial image of the “dead beauty” in two films by E. Bauer: After Death (1915, film adaptation of I.S. Turgenev’s 1883 story Clara Militch) and Dreams (1915, others title Deceived Dreams, film adaptation of G. Rodenbach’s 1892 story Bruges-la-Morte). The research relies on the history of the literary plot about the “dead bride / beauty” (the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, folk tales, Russian classical and symbolist literature, Pre- Raphaelites’ and fin de siècle culture), and the history of the aestheticized image of female death in painting. The article pays particular attention to the images of the “dead beauty” in two works, later filmed by E. Bauer: the stories by I.S. Turgenev Clara Militch, and G. Rodenbach Bruges-la-Morte and their features that attracted E. Bauer — the director, who, unlike his contemporaries, did little to film the classics. The article examines Bauer’s handling of symbolist or pre-symbolist text, and the way in which Bauer, often called a “women’s director,” interprets female symbolic images, breathing life into them, modernizing them, and exploring psychology but also adapting them to a mass audience. The article gives the context of other films by E. Bauer in which the image of a dead woman appears. plot “dead beauty ” I.S. Turgenev Clara Militch G. Rodenbach Bruges-la-Morte E.F. Bauer After Death Dreams Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 1 Volkov, I.O. “Traditsiia Val’tera Skotta v tvorchestve I.S. 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