Kiväärimies

Original title: Chelovek s ruzhyom

19381938
SS
1h 41m

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6.2/10

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A propaganda comedy that tells the story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of an ignorant and easy-going peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings. He does mana... Read allA propaganda comedy that tells the story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of an ignorant and easy-going peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings. He does manage to make the Stalin and Lenin characters look like just a pair of good old boys when the... Read allA propaganda comedy that tells the story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of an ignorant and easy-going peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings. He does manage to make the Stalin and Lenin characters look like just a pair of good old boys when they laugh as he tells them he allowed a White general to escape because he was awed by the u... Read all

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Maksim Shtraukh and Boris Tenin in Kiväärimies (1938)

Mark Bernes and Boris Tenin in Kiväärimies (1938)

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Stalin - as played by Mikheil Gelovani - increasingly disappeared from the film after his death in 1953. Between 1956 and 1961, a scene in Smolny was cut. When the film was restored in 1965, Stalin was completely cut out of it: the scene of eating potatoes of Lenin, Stalin, Dymov and Shadrin was shortened, in the final scene of the film Stalin was also retouched - with the result of Lenin delivering the speech standing on a podium alone. All references to Stalin in the film texts were also removed.