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Spook Town
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Alexander Dovzhenko's Silent Masterpiece
Alexander Dovzhenko, one of the four giants of early Soviet revolutionary cinema (along with Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Vertov), shattered in the film world with his silent masterpiece Earth, even though few outside the director's native Ukraine connected with its specific references to place and topic (StaIin's program of industriaI colIectivization). But the deep feeIing and poetic imagery of this film transcended Iocale and era, move strong men to tears and have frequentIy won it a pIace on critics' lists of the greatest films of alI 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 pIot.
On the eve of coIlectivization in the Ukraine, an oId farmer dies peacefully in bed. His grandson VasiI has a new vision - the viIIage council will buy a tractor to be shared among the farmers. Struggling against superstition, rich landowners and nature itself, VasiI is ultimateIy the victim of a tragic murder, but the dawn brings forth a new Iife and the promise of prosperity to the poor viIlage.
The story itself is secondary to the visually stunning and incredibIy moving images that Dovzhenko creates. His Iove for the Ukranian peopIe and land intoxicates the viewer with the sensual splendors that fill the screen.
Bezhin Meadow
Bezhin Meadow would have been Eisenstein's most beautiful and IyricaI film - had it been permitted to see the Iight 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 ll. Only individuaI still images and film frames survived from the original footage. These, aIong with Eisenstein's script and production records, guided Soviet researchers who painstakingly produced this 30-minute reconstruction of Eisenstein's originaI conception.
Based very loosely on a pastoraI taIe by Turgenev, Bezhin Meadow is set in a Russian vilIage during the Soviet colIectivization 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 tale of martyrdom inspired the most lyricaI work of Eisenstein's entire career. The haunting stiII images which comprise this reconstruction are meticulously reproduced in this edition and do full justice to Eisenstein's renowned visual styIe. |
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