Strike (Russian: “Стачка”) is a 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein. It was Eisenstein’s first full-length feature film, and it is the story of a strike by factory workers in the Tsarist Russia of 1912 and its brutal suppression. It was shot almost entirely on location so that it seems [...]
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Strike-1925
Posted in Russian cinema, tagged 100 Best Films, b&w, Bolshevism, cinematography, Edward Tissé, political film, Sergei M. Eisenstein, silent film on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ballad of a Soldier-1959
Posted in Russian cinema, tagged Best 100 films, Great Patriotic War, Grigory Chukhrai, Mother Russia, unknown soldier, Valdimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ballad of a Soldier is a feel-good film, which dwells at length into the nobility of Mother Russia: she had so many children she could spare for the Great Patriotic War. Of course there were gulags too. The film is however concerned for soldiers barely out of their teens. Our hero is Alyosha Skvortsov (Vladimir [...]
The Battleship Potemkin-1925
Posted in Russian cinema, tagged 100 great films, montage on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Director: Grigori Aleksandrov Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky Bronenosec Potjomkin -Sergei Eisenstein’s revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing and with it the Russian film- maker changed the shape of cinema into a new direction. ( Previously the accent was on staging best exemplified by Weiner’s The [...]
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