Arsenal (1929 film)
| Arsenal | |
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| File:Arsenal 1928 film.jpg Stenberg brothers' film poster | |
| Directed by | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| Written by | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| Produced by | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| Starring | Semyon Svashenko Mykola Nademsky Amvroziy Buchma Les Podorozhnij |
| Cinematography | Danylo Demutsky |
| Music by | Igor Belza |
| Distributed by | VUFKU-Odessa |
Release date |
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Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Languages | Silent film Russian intertitles |
Arsenal (Russian: Арсенал, also alternative title January Uprising in Kiev in 1918[1]) is a Soviet film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko. The film was made in 1928 and released early in 1929.[1][2] 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.
References
- ^ a b Арсенал - информация о фильме (in Russian). Kino-teatr.ru. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
- ^ Magill's Survey of Silent Films, Vol.1 A-FLA p.152 edited by Frank N. Magill c.1982 ISBN 0-89356-240-8 (3 book set ISBN 0-89356-239-4)
External links
- Arsenal at IMDb
- Arsenal at AllMovie
- Ray Uzwyshyn's Visual Exploration of Arsenal
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