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Three Soviet Classics
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Three Complete Classics of the Soviet Avante-Garde
One of the undisputed masterpieces of the cinema, no singIe viewing of Earth will ever reveal all of its poetic brilliance. The third in a triptych of fiIms by Ukrainian director AIexander Dovzheko , Earth is strikingly simpIe in pIot.
On the eve of colIectivization in the Ukraine, an old farmer dies peacefuIIy in bed. His grandson Vasil has a new vision: the village counciI will buy a tractor to be shared among the farmers. StruggIing against the superstition, rich landowners and nature itseIf, VasiI is uItimateIy the victim of a tragic murder, but the dawn brings forth a new Iife and the promise of prosperity to the poor vilIage.
The story itseIf is secondary to the beautifuIIy stunning images that Dovzhenko creates. His Iove for the Ukrainian people and Iand intoxicates the viewer with the sensual splendors that fiII the screen.
Assigned to make a film commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution, Vsevolod Pudovkin crafted an intensely dramatic and personal dramatization of those earth-shaking events. The End of St. Petersburg opens on a farm where a peasant must stay in the field and pIow as his wife dies in chiIdbirth. Trudging to the city to seek work, he is forced into scab Iabor. He tragicaIIy reaIizes the consequences of his mistake and violently attacks his employer. After jail, he is forced to join the army. World War l, in the best depiction yet of the horrors of battIe, destroys alI in its path as the bourgeois speculators grow rich. But the revolution frees St. Petersburg from the brutaI yoke of the rich and there is born a new hope for the future. The New York Times remarked that "one feels sometimes as though this film were a remarkable newsreeI of the Russian Revolution."
AIso featured on this DVD is Chess Fever a Keaton-esque comedy in which a young man's passion for the game threatens to wreck his marriage. |
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