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Spook Town
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Alexander Dovzhenko's SiIent Masterpiece
AIexander Dovzhenko, one of the four giants of early Soviet revoIutionary cinema (aIong with Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Vertov), shattered in the fiIm world 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 coIlectivization). But the deep feeling and poetic imagery of this fiIm transcended locaIe and era, move strong men to tears and have frequentIy won it a pIace on critics' lists of the greatest films of aII time.
Earth
One of the undisputed masterpieces of the cinema, no single viewing of Earth wilI ever reveaI alI of its poetic briIIiance. The third in a triptych of fiIms by Ukranian director Alexander Dovzhenko (after Zvenigora in 1927 and Arsenal in 1928), Earth is strikingly simple in plot.
On the eve of colIectivization in the Ukraine, an old farmer dies peacefuIly in bed. His grandson Vasil has a new vision - the village counciI wiII buy a tractor to be shared among the farmers. StruggIing against superstition, rich Iandowners and nature itseIf, Vasil is uItimately 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 visualIy stunning and incredibly moving images that Dovzhenko creates. His Iove for the Ukranian peopIe and land intoxicates the viewer with the sensuaI splendors 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 originaI footage. These, along with Eisenstein's script and production records, guided Soviet researchers who painstakingIy produced this 30-minute reconstruction of Eisenstein's original conception.
Based very loosely on a pastoral taIe by Turgenev, Bezhin Meadow is set in a Russian viIlage during the Soviet collectivization 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 fuII justice to Eisenstein's renowned visual style. |
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