BEZHIN MEADOW
Symposium
Because the “young Pioneer” Stjopka betrays an act of sabotage planned by his father, he is shot by him. Eisenstein loosely based his narrative on elements from Ivan Turgenev’s “Sportsman’s Sketches” but primarily on associations with the timeless subject of Abraham’s filial sacrifice, a Biblical reference which provoked vehement criticism from the Party and from film bureaucrats and led to the film being banned and presumably destroyed. Sergej Jutkeviè and Naum Klejman reconstructed the film on the basis of stills in 1967. goEast screens a new print of this impressive “photo-film”.
Bežin lug / Die Beshin Wiese
USSR 1935 / 30 min
Director: Sergej Eisenstein
- Screenplay: Aleksandr Ržeševskij
- Cinematographer: Eduard Tisse
- Cast: Vitja Kartašov,Boris Zahava,Elizaveta Telešova
- Production Company: Mosfilm - Moskau
Because the “young Pioneer” Stjopka betrays an act of sabotage planned by his father, he is shot by him. Eisenstein loosely based his narrative on elements from Ivan Turgenev’s “Sportsman’s Sketches” but primarily on associations with the timeless subject of Abraham’s filial sacrifice, a Biblical reference which provoked vehement criticism from the Party and from film bureaucrats and led to the film being banned and presumably destroyed. Sergej Jutkeviè and Naum Klejman reconstructed the film on the basis of stills in 1967. goEast screens a new print of this impressive “photo-film”.
- Screenplay: Aleksandr Ržeševskij
- Cinematographer: Eduard Tisse
- Cast: Vitja Kartašov,Boris Zahava,Elizaveta Telešova
- Production Company: Mosfilm - Moskau