Category: 1920s
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Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental documentary that chronicles an average day in Moscow, from the early morning hours to the carousing at night. There is no plot or written characters; the sole purpose of the film is to demonstrate a number of techniques one can do with a camera, as well as…
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In Aelita: Queen of Mars (1926), an apparent alien signal from the planet Mars leads to Loss, a beleaguered engineer from Soviet Russia, building a spaceship so he can forget about his marital problems. After flying to Mars in a rocket ship with his friend Gusev, Loss falls in love with Aelita, the queen of…
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In Bed and Sofa (1927), Liuda and Kolia live a mostly happy life in Moscow, with the housewife Liuda longing for more out of life, while her husband works as a stonemason. Their usual routine is disrupted when Kolia’s friend Volodia moves into their apartment due to a housing shortage, and Volodia’s kind behavior towards…
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One day in 1905, a group of soldiers on the Russian naval battleship Potemkin complain about the quality of rations they are given on the ship, only to be violently suppressed by the higher-ups. As a result, a mutiny erupts, leading to the death of Vakulinchuk, a passionate supporter of the revolution in Russia. When…
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