Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa. Reading it, Vladimir realizes that he became an owner the supernatural gift – he can kill people by his own will.Read More »
As the Bolsheviks attempt to establish their authority among the Muslim peoples of Central Asia., rebel bands, known as basmachis, carry out deadly raids on peaceful villages. When most of the locals—even members of his militia—join forces with Khairulla, the charasmatic basmachi leader, Maxumov, the area’s communist leader, decides to give himself up—hoping that once in custody he might be able to convince the people that Khairulla just seeks to exploit them. More nuanced and psychologically richer than your typical “eastern” action film, The Seventh Bullet avoids cultural clichés and stereotypes, giving each character the chance to offer their views and the reasons for them. The screenplay was co-written by Andrei Konchalovsky.Read More »
Ggle Translate wrote:
The film is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution (1917). Pelechian experiments with this film what he will not cease to develop in subsequent films, namely a montage of pre-existing images, alternating past, present and future, the plot of which forms a symbolic representation that goes beyond the history of Russia alone. We see popular revolt movements, parades, emblematic figures, rubbing shoulders with images of explosions, corpses or moving machines, with this rhythmic flow so particular to the aesthetics of the filmmaker.Read More »
Two inventors head to propose a machine for easy soap packaging while evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine and gaslighting friends.Read More »
About the life and creative work of M.I. Glinka, the great Russian composer, about his studies in Italy, about creation of the operas «Ivan Susanin» and «Ruslan and Lyudmila». On having learned that the latter is devoted to A. S. Pushkin, tsar Nikolay I considers it a revolt. The composer’s associates – progressive-minded people of Russia carry off his bitter experiences.
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Ggle Translate wrote:
The film seems to be organized around a great threat with the appearance of rumor; a representation of chaos through the apocalyptic fugues of herds of animals, terrified, whose camera gazes sometimes seem like desperate calls, but whose inertia in flight finds the counterpoint with the peaceful flight of clouds of birds escaping from the earth and men, who colonize it with the sound of guns.Read More »
A mysterious radio message is beamed around the world, and among the engineers who receive it are Los, the hero, and his colleague Spiridonov. Los is an individualist dreamer. Aelita is the daughter of Tuskub, the ruler of a totalitarian state on Mars in which the working class are put into cold storage when they are not needed. With a telescope, Aelita is able to watch Los. As if by telepathy, Los obsesses about being watched by her. After some hugger-mugger involving the murder of his wife and a pursuing detective, Los takes the identity of Spiridonov and builds a spaceship. With the revolutionary Gusev, he travels to Mars, but the Earthlings and Aelita are thrown into prison by the dictator. Gusev and Los begin a proletarian uprising, and Aelita offers to lead the revolution, but she then establishes her own totalitarian regime. Los is shocked by this development and attempts to stop Aelita, and then reality and fantasy become confused, and Los discovers what has really happened.Read More »
Google Translate wrote:
Always processions, to the glory of “our century”, always this impression of a threat which cannot be said, of a rumor which manifests itself, but does not take shape; our century, we will not forget, it is the century of conquests and genocides, the century of all vanities too: men are going to put all their pretensions to the test. They will fight against the determinisms of nature, will fabricate their legend with cross-dressing, intimidating protocols, daring and obstinacy, to leave as testimony only a few images that tirelessly repeat the absurdity of this vocation. instinctive and totalitarian to colonization and occupation of worlds.Read More »
Artavazd Peleshian wrote:
“It was during my work on the film We that I became convinced that my interests were elsewhere, that the very essence and main thrust of montage for me was found less in assembling scenes and more in the possibility of disjoining them, not in their juxtaposition but their separation. It became clear that what interested me above all wasn’t joining two elements of the montage, but rather separating them by inserting a third, fifth, even tenth element between them.Read More »