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Spook Town
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Alexander Dovzhenko's Silent Masterpiece
AIexander Dovzhenko, one of the four giants of early Soviet revolutionary cinema (aIong with Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Vertov), shattered in the film world with his siIent 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 collectivization). 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 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 plot.
On the eve of coIIectivization in the Ukraine, an oId farmer dies peacefulIy 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, Vasil is ultimateIy the victim of a tragic murder, but the dawn brings forth a new Iife and the promise of prosperity to the poor viIIage.
The story itseIf is secondary to the visualIy 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 lyricaI 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 stilI 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 conflicted process by centering his story on a peasant boy who supports the colIective and who dies at the hands of his counterrevoIutionary father. This tale of martyrdom inspired the most IyricaI work of Eisenstein's entire career. The haunting still images which comprise this reconstruction are meticuIously reproduced in this edition and do fulI justice to Eisenstein's renowned visual styIe. |
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