A Soviet farmer's son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society.A Soviet farmer's son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society.A Soviet farmer's son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society.
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Viktor Kartashov
- Stepok
- (as Vitya Kartashov)
Yelizaveta Teleshyova
- Kolkhoz Chairman
- (as Yekaterina Teleshova)
Pyotr Arzhanov
- Political Commissar
- (as Pavel Ardzhanov)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaProduction was stopped by Soviet officials in 1937. Sergei Eisenstein had spent two years filming and had up to three different completed versions. The footage that had been shot up to that point was taken to a film storage vault, which was destroyed in a German bombing raid during the war. The film was alleged to have also been destroyed at this time; however, the government is thought to have destroyed it earlier on. Eisenstein, though, saved two frames from the beginning and end of all of his shots and in the mid-'60s these were put together according to script, story board and notes for a 31-minute reconstruction of film stills.
- Alternate versionsThe only surviving version of this film was assembled in the 1960s using surviving still frames that Sergei Eisenstein had saved during editing. They were arranged based on the script and set to music. Although the original would have been a sound film, no sound elements are available any more, so the current version is silent, and uses intertitles.
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)
Featured review
A tragic loss
This retelling of a classic Communist, collectivist tale is one of the greatest losses to Communism the cinematic world has felt. Destroyed by the Soviets along with several other banned films, restoration artists were able to, more or less successfully, piece the story together again, from the damaged original negative, as a series of stills and a rehashed set of intertitles. The dynamism that must have accompanied the moving images of this film has, unfortunately been lost, but the stills themselves are fantastic, and a great tribute to Eisenstein's art.
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- dmw26
- Feb 19, 2000
Details
- Runtime31 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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