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1926 |
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DRAMA
IMPORTANT
SILENT
FOREIGN
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Russia |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
90 |
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A mother (Vera Baranovskaya) betrays her son (Nikolai Batalov), leader of an illegal strike, to the police but eventually learns to love Communism.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Classic Soviet propaganda-piece, with mother and son symbolising the masses who eventually rose up against the Tsar. Montage is used skilfully to establish character; Baranovskaya is moving; and many sequences are the equal of anything produced by Eisenstein. It was banned in New York on release, but it's undoubtedly a highlight of silent cinema.
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, A.P. Khristiakov, Nikolai Batalov