Category: Soviet Union
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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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During the Russian Civil War, Vasily Chapaev organizes a ragtag band of Red Army troops in the impoverished countryside against the White Army. After forming a bond with Furmanov, a commissar from Moscow, the White Army advances against Chapaev’s forces, despite the Red Army’s proficiency with a machine gun. However, Chapaev dies in the crossfire,…
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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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