Bezhin Meadow

 

In times of the collectivization and advance of the USSR, some kulaks confront the koljózniks; a struggle also seen through the historical and mythical prism of the confrontation between a father and his son, the heroic Stepok.

Started two years before, the production of Bezhin Meadow was halted in 1937 because Stalin disliked Eisenstein’s film. The reels of this picture disappeared during WWII, surely destroyed in the fire after a bombing. The film, in spite of the double misfortune (t [...]

Duration

31 min

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