Sergey EISENSTEIN Сергей ЭЙЗЕНШТЕЙН Sergueï EISENSTEIN   USSR, 1935   Black and white, fiction

Bezhin Meadow ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Бежин луг    Le Pré de Bejine  Bezhin Lug

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Plot synopsis

The film is based on the life of Pavlik Morozov, a young Russian boy who became a political martyr following his death in 1932, after he denounced his father to Soviet government authorities and subsequently died at the hands of his family.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Ada Ackerman (Thalim-CNRS): Eisenstein et la censure, le cas du Pré de Béjine., Ada ACKERMAN, Cirrus Sorbonne, 2019

Un "procès de Moscou"au cinéma : Le pré de Béjine d'Eisenstein, Eric SCHMULEVITCH, Champs visuels, France URSS, 2008

 

The film's production ran from 1935 to 1937, until it was halted by the central Soviet government, which said it contained artistic, social, and political failures.<...>In the wake of the film's failure, Eisenstein publicly recanted his work as an error.<...>
Bezhin Meadow was long thought lost in the wake of World War II bombings. In the 1960s, however, cuttings and partial prints of the film were found; from these, a reconstruction of Bezhin Meadow, based on the original script, was undertaken.<..>
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Selected in the following festivals :

- Programme 2019-2020 organisé par la Sorbonne : films tabous et interdits en URSS, Paris (France), 2019

- Talents soviétiques - Collection Arkeion, Paris (France), 2019

- Cycle Eisenstein à la cinématique de Toulouse, Toulouse (France), 2018

- Festival of Archive Films, Belye Stolby (Russia), 2013

- Zoom arrière. Cinémathèque de Toulouse, Toulouse (France), 2012

- Cinéma Russie Institut Lumière, Lyon (France), 2012

- Festival "Polka. liberated cinema", Moscow (Russia), 2011

- Rétrospective Eisenstein à la Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2010

- International festival of independent cinema : BAFICI, Buenos Aires (Argentina), 2009

- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 2006

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2005

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