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Writers:
Isaak Babel (writer)
Sergei M. Eisenstein (writer)
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Genre:
Short | Drama more
Plot:
A Soviet farmer 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. more | add synopsis
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I agree with the other user comment I have read on this film:May have been Eisenstein´s best film!! more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Viktor Kartashov ... Stepok (as Vitya Kartashov)
Nikolai Khmelyov ... Peasant
Pyotr Arzhanov ... Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)
Yekaterina Teleshova ... President of Kolkhoz
Nikolai Maslov ... Arsonist
Yakov Zajtsev
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Stanislav Rostotsky ... Boy
Boris Zakhava ... Stepok's Father
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bezhin Meadow
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Runtime:
USA:31 min | Argentina:31 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)
Country:
Soviet Union
Language:
Russian
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:Unrated

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Production was stopped by Soviet officials in 1937. Sergei M. Eisenstein had spent two years filming the movie and at times had up to 3 different completed versions. The shot material in movie form was taken to a film storage which was destroyed during a German bombing raid in the war. The film to confirmed to be destroyed at this time, however the government is thought to have destroyed it earlier on. Eisenstein, however saves two frames from the beginning and end of all of his shots and in the mid 1960s these were put together according to script, story board, and notes on the film to a 31-minute reconstruction of film stills. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Sergei Eisenstein. Avtobiografiya (1996) more

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I agree with the other user comment I have read on this film:May have been Eisenstein´s best film!!, 12 January 2002
Author: anton-6 from sweden

I saw the reconstruction of this film on the Criterion Collection dvd set Eisenstein: The sound years.The photography is fantastic and I think it would have been a masterpiece but it was destroyed.It could be a bit confusing to follow the story in the reconstruction(it´s something about 30 minutes long)but it´s still very interesting.

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