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Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film (1968)

ALL 03/04/1968 (ru) Drama 31 Min
  • Release
    03/04/1968
  • Production
    State Cinematography Department
  • Rotten tomato
    59%
  • Original title
    Бежин луг
  • Original language
    ru
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. Assigned to Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, the filming followed the same path as with his previous effort, "Que Viva Mexico", into cost overrun and over-shooting of footage. Furthermore, Eisenstein's usage of forbidden experimental film techniques outraged his government superiors, who ordered the film destroyed before it was even completed. All that survives are the first and last frames of each shot, preserved by Sergei Eisenstein’s wife, Pera Atasheva. The 1967 reconstruction, by Naum Kleiman of the Eisenstein Museum and Sergei Yutkevich of Gosfilmofond, places these frames in order, approximating the original film.

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  1. Viktor Kartashov

    Stepok (as Vitya Kartashov)

  2. Boris Zakhava

    Samokhin, Stepok's Father

  3. Pyotr Arzhanov

    Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)

  4. Yekaterina Teleshova

    President of Kolkhoz

  5. Nikolai Maslov

    Arsonist

  6. Nikolai Khmelyov

    Peasant

  7. Stanislav Rostotsky

    Boy

  8. Yakov Zajtsev

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Casts : 8 , Crews : 9

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Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film (1968) 31 Min

ALL 03/04/1968 (ru)
Drama
  • Release 03/04/1968
  • Production
    State Cinematography Department
  • Original title Бежин луг
  • ru
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. Assigned to Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, the filming followed the same path as with his previous effort, "Que Viva Mexico", into cost overrun and over-shooting of footage. Furthermore, Eisenstein's usage of forbidden experimental film techniques outraged his government superiors, who ordered the film destroyed before it was even completed. All that survives are the first and last frames of each shot, preserved by Sergei Eisenstein’s wife, Pera Atasheva. The 1967 reconstruction, by Naum Kleiman of the Eisenstein Museum and Sergei Yutkevich of Gosfilmofond, places these frames in order, approximating the original film.

  1. Sergei Eisenstein

    Director

  2. Ivan Turgenev

    Story

  3. Klavdia Aleyeve

    Editor

  4. Producer



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