
Against the background of the struggle of the Petrograd workers against General Yudenich's white troops, the love drama of the worker Konstantinov unfolds..

In the nascent years of Soviet cinema, before the formalist explosions of Eisenstein or the rhythmic kinetics of Vertov, there existed a transitional period of raw, urgent storytelling that sought to reconcile the individual psyche with the crushing weight of historical inevitability. Za vlast Sovetov! (1923), direct...

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Aleksandr Panteleyev

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" In the nascent years of Soviet cinema, before the formalist explosions of Eisenstein or the rhythmic kinetics of Vertov, there existed a transitional period of raw, urgent storytelling that sought to reconcile the individual psyche with the crushing weight of historical inevitability. Za vlast Sovetov! (1923), directed and co-written by Aleksandr Litvinov alongside Daniil Gessen, stands as a quintessential artifact of this era. It is a work that breathes the smoke of the Petrograd factories an..."
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Daniil Gessen, Aleksandr Litvinov
Soviet Union

1920 · IMDb —
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