DVD: Nikolai Batalov

DVD: Nikolai Batalov

DVD:

Nikolai Batalov

Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov

Image Entertainment, 1999

Pudovkins greatest?
Pudovkins approach to montage was slightly different than Eisensteins. Pudovkin treated each shot as bricks in a wall, where Eisenstein would emphasise on the collision effect in each cut. This is hailed as Pudovkins masterpiece and it's a beautiful film, with strong ...

Bed and Sofa

Nikolai Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova

Image Entertainment, 2004

An Unusual Soviet Silent
Abram Room's Bed and Sofa is quite different from the most famous Soviet silent films such as Battleship Potemkin, Earth or Mother. The Great Russian silents are usually full of propaganda, with stylised characters representing archetypes rather than individuals. Such ...

Aelita - Queen of Mars

Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky

Image Entertainment, 1999

This was a hot stuff in its historical period!
After leaving the hall of cinema, I asked to myself how could this movie to surmount the ideological prejudices and brutal censure, if presumably didn't count with a kind overlook by part of adverse enemies of the regime. Because the whole contain of the underneath ...