The King of Paris (Russian:Король Парижа, translit:Korol' Parizha) is a 1917 Russian silent feature film directed by Yevgeni Bauer.
The film was shot in the cinema factory of Aleksandr Khanzhonkov in Yalta.
This film was the latest work of Yevgeni Bauer. At work on the film previous, For Happiness (ru: «За счастьем») Bauer broke his leg, and he shot his latest film while in his chair, but soon fell ill with pneumonia. He began shooting in early summer of 1917[1]. But he was soon placed in Yalta hospital and 9 June 1917 he died.
Olga Rakhmanova finished the film.
The premiere went through one month after the October Revolution, 6 December 1917. People were busy with the revolution, and the film turned out to be unnoticed.
The only copy of the movie almost 100 years has lain in the archives[2][1][3]. Demonstration of the film took place in Yalta to the 130th anniversary of Aleksandr Khanzhonkov in September 2007[4].