If you're already inclined towards silent cinema, especially those grand, sweeping melodramas from the late 20s, then Kote Marjanishvili's 1928 adaptation of The Gadfly might just be worth digging up. It's a dense, often overwrought thing, but it has a certain historical heft and some truly striking imagery that will s...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Kote Marjanishvili
Dallas M. Fitzgerald
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"If you're already inclined towards silent cinema, especially those grand, sweeping melodramas from the late 20s, then Kote Marjanishvili's 1928 adaptation of The Gadfly might just be worth digging up. It's a dense, often overwrought thing, but it has a certain historical heft and some truly striking imagery that will stick with you. For anyone else, though, expecting modern pacing or a quiet sort of emotional realism, this one's probably going to feel like a real slog. It’s a film for the patien..."
Kote Marjanishvili, Viktor Shklovskiy, Ethel Lilian Voynich
Soviet Union
1928 · IMDb 7.2
