Ivan Novoseltsev
1906 - 1942Prostoy sluchay
Mikhail Doller, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Aleksandr Baturin, Yevgeniya Rogulina
As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER ASIA (1928), Vsevolod Pudovkin unleashed his flair for experimentation in what was supposed to be the director’s first sound feature. Everything went wrong: technical problems forced him to complete the film as a silent; viewers were baffled by the lack of a recognizable plot; then, the ideological climate of the Soviet Union changed. He was now being blamed for catering to bourgeois taste! Time has come to set the record straight. Here’s lyrical cinema at its best, deliberately operatic and yet intimate as it matches the characters’ inner life with the solemn rhythms of nature, and depicted through breathtaking black-and-white photography. A sensation at last year’s Pordenone fest, Pudovkin’s long-forgotten swan song to the art of montage is resurrected by Gabriel Thibaudeau’s emotionally charged live music performance. –PCU (USSR, 1930, 75m)
A Simple Case
Александр Пархоменко
Leonid Lukov
Semyon Goldshtab, Nikolai Bogolyubov
About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Parkhomenko. In 1918, capturing Ukraine, the German occupiers sought to use the Haidamaks, the White Guards and the Greens in their struggle. By order of Voroshilov, Aleksandr Parkhomenko from Lugansk arrives in Tsaritsyn. At the same time, the Germans launched an active offensive. The "red" battalions are poorly armed, however, Parkhomenko manages to raise them to the attack and put the enemy to flight.
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
Великий утешитель
Lev Kuleshov
Konstantin Khokhlov, Ivan Novoseltsev
The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.
The Great Consoler
Семеро смелых
Sergei Gerasimov
Nikolai Bogolyubov, Tamara Makarova
Six polar explorers arrives to a remote island in Arctic for a year-long scientific expedition. When their ship departs, they unpack only to find a young stowaway, who romanticized Arctic heroes, and tried to join them on multiple occasions finally succeeding. That's how six became seven. Life of polar explorers is tough, and full of danger. During one year they are largely isolated from the mainland, and should survive using their resourcefulness, smarts, knowledge, and existing supplies with occasional unreliable radio communications. The Seven are resilient, cheerful, they forged a true friendship. Now they are ready to face the unforgiving Arctic.
The Brave Seven
Комсомольск
Sergei Gerasimov
Pyotr Aleynikov, Евгения Голынчик
В 1932 году тысячи комсомольцев отправляются на Дальний Восток для строительства "города юности" — Комсомольска-на-Амуре. Среди строителей — диверсант. Вскоре на новых заводах Комсомольска взрываются склады с горючим.
Komsomolsk
Рваные башмаки
Margarita Barskaya
Mikhail Klimov, Klavdiya Polovikova
Working with children led Barskaya to create superb direct sound and an inspired style of shooting. Don’t look for conventional cinematic syntax here. The film is chaotic in the way that Soviet films still knew how to be, and Langlois couldn’t help but be seduced by its rebellious spirit, its anarchy and love of children, comparable to Vigo’s Zero de conduite. As well as being a film made with and for children, it offers a complex take on Western society. Pre-Nazi Germany is not named as such but is carefully reconstructed, possibly under advice from Karl Radek, and children offer a playful reflection of class struggle – doubly excluded, as proletarians and as minors. “They play in the same way that they live”, one intertitle says. The interaction between their comical games and the yet more ludicrous ones played by adults is developed on several levels.
Torn Boots
Пятый океан
Isidor Annensky
Andrei Abrikosov, Pyotr Aleynikov
В конце тридцатых годов мечтой советского человека было небо, воздушный океан. Десятки аэроклубов открывались по всей стране, через считанные месяцы их выпускники будут бомбить фрица на фанерных птицах. Охотник из тайги заканчивает летную школу и совершает первые боевые вылеты.
Пятый океан
Будни
Boris Schreiber
Boris Terentyev, Galina Sergeyeva
Однажды привычный порядок одного из крупных аэропортов страны нарушается: летчик Зубов сажает свой самолет во время тумана точно и красиво, но вопреки предписанию. Очередное лихачество Зубова завершается тем, что он топит в болоте самолет, едва не погубив себя и приемного сына инженера аэропорта - Гвоздика. Зубова лишают на полгода прав пилота, но оставляют в коллективе...
Будни
Морской пост
Vladimir Gonchukov
Ivan Novoseltsev, Galina Yumasheva
Середина 1930-х годов. На небольшом тихоокеанском острове у входа в бухту Золотая несет службу гарнизон пограничной охраны НКВД. На остров со шпионским заданием прибывает сын смотрителя маяка Фёдор Буров. Однажды утром он поджигает маяк и уплывает на лодке в море. Команда пограничного катера «Чекист» получает задание встретить непрошеного гостя, замаскировавшегося под рыболовное судно. Шхуна японских диверсантов попадает в плен, и «Чекист» уводит ее. На борту шхуны обнаружен и задержан Фёдор Буров. Тем временем японский военный корабль высаживает на остров десант. Небольшому отряду, которым командует старший лейтенант Назаров (Иван Новосельцев), до появления пограничников и бомбардировщиков удается сдержать натиск врага.
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