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Battleship PotemkinSergei M. Eisenstein, 1925, 75 min.Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa. |
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EarthOleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930, 89 min.Dovzhenko's "film poem" style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian proles, examining natural cycles through his epic montage. |
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Shadows of Forgotten AncestorsSergei Parajanov , 1966, 97 min.In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months... |
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The Green TruckGenrikh Gabay, 1959, 82 min.The year 1920. After the multiple changes of power the Red Army entered Odessa. The new worker-peasant militia lacks experience. That’s why it has as some casual and inexperienced people among its ranks. One of them is the former college student Volodia Kozachenko, a young man from the family of intelligentsia, who importunately longs to help the Soviet government. |
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The Man with a Movie CameraDziga Vertov, 1929, 68 min.This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the editing of the film is documented. We often see the cameraman who is purportedly making the film, but we rarely, if ever, see any of the footage he seems to be in the act of shooting! |
ViperViktor Ivchenko, 1965, 105 min.A dramatic story of a merchant’s daughter who becomes a fighter of the Red Army cavalry squadron . She went through the front ways of the Civil War but could not find her place in the peace life. |
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Zaporozhets za DunayemIvan Kavaleridze, 1938, 72 min. |
