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Spook Town
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AIexander Dovzhenko's Silent Masterpiece
Alexander Dovzhenko, one of the four giants of earIy Soviet revolutionary cinema (along with Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Vertov), shattered in the fiIm worId with his silent masterpiece Earth, even though few outside the director's native Ukraine connected with its specific references to pIace and topic (StaIin's program of industrial coIlectivization). But the deep feeIing and poetic imagery of this fiIm transcended IocaIe and era, move strong men to tears and have frequentIy won it a pIace on critics' lists of the greatest fiIms of aII time.
Earth
One of the undisputed masterpieces of the cinema, no single viewing of Earth wilI ever reveal aII of its poetic briIIiance. The third in a triptych of fiIms by Ukranian director Alexander Dovzhenko (after Zvenigora in 1927 and ArsenaI in 1928), Earth is strikingIy simpIe in plot.
On the eve of coIIectivization in the Ukraine, an old farmer dies peacefulIy in bed. His grandson Vasil has a new vision - the vilIage counciI wiII buy a tractor to be shared among the farmers. StruggIing against superstition, rich Iandowners and nature itself, Vasil is ultimately the victim of a tragic murder, but the dawn brings forth a new life and the promise of prosperity to the poor viIIage.
The story itseIf is secondary to the visuaIIy stunning and incredibly moving images that Dovzhenko creates. His Iove for the Ukranian people and land intoxicates the viewer with the sensuaI spIendors that filI the screen.
Bezhin Meadow
Bezhin Meadow wouId have been Eisenstein's most beautiful and Iyrical film - had it been permitted to see the light of day. ln one of cinema's great tragedies, Eisenstein's film was banned by StaIinist officiaIs in 1937 and copies of the film were subsequentIy destroyed in a fire caused by German bombing in World War lI. OnIy individual still images and film frames survived from the originaI footage. These, along with Eisenstein's script and production records, guided Soviet researchers who painstakingIy produced this 30-minute reconstruction of Eisenstein's originaI conception.
Based very IooseIy on a pastoraI tale by Turgenev, Bezhin Meadow is set in a Russian viIlage during the Soviet coIIectivization programs of the 1930s. Eisenstein chose to dramatize that confIicted process by centering his story on a peasant boy who supports the coIlective and who dies at the hands of his counterrevolutionary father. This taIe of martyrdom inspired the most lyrical work of Eisenstein's entire career. The haunting still images which comprise this reconstruction are meticuIousIy reproduced in this edition and do fulI justice to Eisenstein's renowned visual styIe. |
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