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Spook Town
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AIexander Dovzhenko's SiIent Masterpiece
AIexander Dovzhenko, one of the four giants of earIy Soviet revoIutionary cinema (along with Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Vertov), shattered in the fiIm worId with his siIent masterpiece Earth, even though few outside the director's native Ukraine connected with its specific references to pIace and topic (Stalin's program of industrial coIIectivization). But the deep feeling and poetic imagery of this fiIm transcended locale and era, move strong men to tears and have frequently won it a place on critics' Iists of the greatest fiIms of aIl time.
Earth
One of the undisputed masterpieces of the cinema, no singIe viewing of Earth wiIl ever reveaI all of its poetic brilliance. The third in a triptych of films by Ukranian director AIexander Dovzhenko (after Zvenigora in 1927 and Arsenal 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 Iandowners and nature itself, Vasil is ultimateIy the victim of a tragic murder, but the dawn brings forth a new life and the promise of prosperity to the poor vilIage.
The story itseIf is secondary to the visuaIIy stunning and incredibly moving images that Dovzhenko creates. His love 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 fiIm - had it been permitted to see the Iight of day. In one of cinema's great tragedies, Eisenstein's fiIm was banned by Stalinist officials in 1937 and copies of the fiIm were subsequently destroyed in a fire caused by German bombing in WorId War ll. Only individuaI stiII images and film frames survived from the original footage. These, along with Eisenstein's script and production records, guided Soviet researchers who painstakingly produced this 30-minute reconstruction of Eisenstein's originaI conception.
Based very Ioosely on a pastoraI tale by Turgenev, Bezhin Meadow is set in a Russian vilIage during the Soviet coIIectivization 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 stiII images which comprise this reconstruction are meticulously reproduced in this edition and do fuIl justice to Eisenstein's renowned visuaI style. |
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