Pavel Petrov-Bytov
2021Пугачев
Pavel Petrov-Bytov
Konstantin Skorobogatov, Kasim Mukhutdinov
1773 год. Фильм рассказывает об одном из самых сильных потрясений Российской Империи — восстании казачества под руководством Емельяна Пугачева, переросшем в гражданскую войну за царский престол, где Пугачев уже Петр III.
Pugachev
Kain i Artem
Pavel Petrov-Bytov
Emil Gal, Nikolai Simonov
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.
Cain and Artem
