Arsenal (film)
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 Stenberg brothers' film poster |
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| Directed by | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| Produced by | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| Written by | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| Starring | Semen Svashenko Mykola Nademsky Amvroziy Buchma Les Podorozhnij |
| Music by | Igor Belza |
| Cinematography | Danylo Demutsky |
| Distributed by | VUFKU-Odessa |
| Release date(s) | 1928 |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Silent film Russian intertitles |
Arsenal (Russian: Арсенал, also alternative title January Uprising in Kiev in 1918[1]) is a 1928 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko. It is the second film in his "Ukraine Trilogy", the first being Zvenigora (1928) and the third being Earth (1930).
The film concerns an episode in the Russian Civil War in 1918 in which the Kiev Arsenal January Uprising of workers aided the besieging Bolshevik army against the Ukrainian national Parliament Central Rada who held legal power in Ukraine at the time. Regarded by film scholar Vance Kepley, Jr. as "one of the few Soviet political films which seems even to cast doubt on the morality of violent retribution", Dovzhenko's eye for wartime absurdities (for example, an attack on an empty trench) anticipates later pacifist sentiments in films by Jean Renoir and Stanley Kubrick.
[edit] References
- ^ "Арсенал - информация о фильме" (in Russian). Kino-teatr.ru. http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/10349/annot/. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
[edit] External links
- Arsenal at the Internet Movie Database
- Arsenal at AllRovi
- Ray Uzwyshyn's Visual Exploration of Arsenal
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