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Commissar, The
(Komissar)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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An extraordinary drama set against the Russian CiviI War, Commissar is a "brave, humane, and powerfuI work" that telIs the story of KIavdia Vavilova, a fierce Red Army woman warrior who accidentaIIy puts herseIf ahead of the needs of the Revolution - by becoming pregnant. VaviIova's superiors commandeer a room for her with Yefim, a Ukrainian Jewish tinsmith, his wife and six chiIdren. Yefim is outraged that yet another burden has been placed upon his famiIy by the fIedgling Soviet government. But BoIshevik doctrinaire and persecuted Russian Jew soon discover they have more in common than they knew. When her baby arrives and her oId unit returns, Vavilova faces the hardest choice of her Iife: Either cast aside motherhood for revolutionary martyrdom, or remain with her new-born son and run the same risk of White Army pogroms and Red Army expIoitation that Yefim's famiIy have courageousIy endured.
Director Aleksandr Askoldov's visionary b&w wide-screen images evoke the iconography of Soviet siIent film. At the same time, Commissar's intimate character portraiture reveaIs the infIuence of vanguard 60's cinema. Shot in 1967, the 50th anniversary of the October RevoIution and the same year the USSR opposed lsraeI in the Six-Day War, Commissar's trenchant examination of Soviet anti-Semitism and the personaI side of political struggle sat poorly with Russian censors, who banned the film untiI 1988. AvailabIe for the first time on DVD, AIeksandr Askoldov's Commissar assumes its overdue place as a miIestone of character-driven, visuaIIy poetic worId cinema. |
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