Ovod

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Italy, XIX century. The country is occupied by Austrian troops, the resistance movement is actively developing. Student Arthur Burton is involved in the activities of the underground organization Young Italy, envies its leader, Giovanni Bolla, and is jealous of his bride Gemma. He talks about this at a confession to a priest, as a result of which gendarmes take revolutionaries under arrest…

Kain i Artem

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article We Have No Soviet Filmmaking, in which he criticized all the achievements of the Soviet avant-garde. In spite of his beliefs and his scandalous struggle with bourgeois and formalist filmmaking, Petrov-Bytov directed an aesthetically refined work, shot entirely on set with masterful chiaroscuro lighting: a perfect example of Soviet expressionism. Based on a Maxim Gorky story, the plot of Cain and Artem provides a wake-up call to the Russian people to overcome alcoholism and religious factionalism, as it spotlights the (many) drunken denizens of a typical village and their disregard for the Jewish shoemaker Cain.

Nikolai Simonov – MRQE

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