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Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film (1968)

Genre : Drama

Runtime : 31M

Director : Sergei Eisenstein

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Viktor Kartashov
Viktor Kartashov
Stepok (as Vitya Kartashov)
Boris Zakhava
Boris Zakhava
Samokhin, Stepok's Father
Pyotr Arzhanov
Pyotr Arzhanov
Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)
Yekaterina Teleshova
Yekaterina Teleshova
President of Kolkhoz
Nikolai Maslov
Nikolai Maslov
Arsonist
Nikolay Khmelyov
Nikolay Khmelyov
Peasant
Stanislav Rostotsky
Stanislav Rostotsky
Boy
Yakov Zajtsev
Yakov Zajtsev

Crews

Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Isaak Babel
Isaak Babel
Writer
Alexandr Rzheshevsky
Alexandr Rzheshevsky
Writer
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Story
Klavdia Aleyeve
Klavdia Aleyeve
Editor
Boris Volsky
Boris Volsky
Sound
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Yutkevich
Archival Footage Coordinator
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Yutkevich
Supervising Editor

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