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

 

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 :

- 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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