An adventurer has proclaimed himself Czar of the People and resent the countryside at the head of his horde of bandits..
If you have a weekend to kill and want to watch something that feels like it was dug out of a literal trunk in an attic, Volga en flammes is your movie. It’s for the folks who get a kick out of old-world epic scale—think massive crowds, dusty landscapes, and enough extras to populate a small country—but you’ll probably...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Viktor Tourjansky
F. Martin Thornton
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"If you have a weekend to kill and want to watch something that feels like it was dug out of a literal trunk in an attic, Volga en flammes is your movie. It’s for the folks who get a kick out of old-world epic scale—think massive crowds, dusty landscapes, and enough extras to populate a small country—but you’ll probably want to skip this if you need modern pacing or a plot that doesn't feel like it’s been run through a blender. It’s based on Pushkin, which gives it that heavy, literary weight, b..."
Boris de Fast, Jacques Natanson, Aleksandr Pushkin, Viktor Tourjansky
France
