The film addresses issues of racism in the Jim Crow American South. Themes of racial injustice, racial violence, working-class solidarity dominate the film.
A. Kovalenko, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Iosif Sklyut
Soviet Union
If you have three minutes and want to see how 1930s Soviet Russia viewed American racism, this is worth a quick look. History buffs will love the sheer weirdness of it, but anyone wanting a cozy story will hate it. 🎬It is a heavy, blunt instrument of a movie. There is zero subtlety here.Based on a poem by Vladimir May...
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Leonid Amalrik
Hal Roach
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"If you have three minutes and want to see how 1930s Soviet Russia viewed American racism, this is worth a quick look. History buffs will love the sheer weirdness of it, but anyone wanting a cozy story will hate it. 🎬It is a heavy, blunt instrument of a movie. There is zero subtlety here.Based on a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, the film is just a series of angry, stark images. You see Black men working in fields, walking in chains, and facing the electric chair.The white authority figures are dra..."
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