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- The Cranes are Flying - Criterion Collection
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- Mikhail Kalatozov
- "Veronica and Boris are blissfully in love, until the eruption of World War II tears them apart. Boris is sent to the front lines...and then communication stops. Meanwhile, Veronica tries to ward off spiritual numbness while Boris' draft-dodging cousing makes increasingly forceful overtones. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival, The Cranes are Flying is a superbly crafted drama, bolstered by stunning cinematography abd impassioned performances."
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- Alexander Nevsky
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- Dmitri Vasilyev
- "Alexander Nevsky features some of the most beautiful imagery that you will ever see in a film; a justifiably famous, majestic music score by Prokofiev; and a dazzling, climactic battle on a frozen lake. However, this Sergei Eisenstein epic is perhaps most intriguing as a reflection of its time. While Alexander Nevsky is set in 1242, its scenario could just as easily be unraveling in 1938, the year in which it was completed.
The setting is the part of Russia under constant invasion by Mongolian raiders. The fisherman prince Alexander Nevsky learns of a plot by the Teutonic knights to attack the country. While some of the Russian leaders would rather pacify the invaders, the masses instead choose to mobilize, selecting Nevsky as their commander. The Teutons win a number of victories, and even capture the city of Pskov. In the finale, an extended sequence which dramatically overpowers all that has come before it, Nevsky and his forces take on the Teutons in the Battle of the Ice." -
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- Battleship Potemkin
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- Grigori Aleksandrov
- "The Battleship Potempkin eveolved from a film project assigned to Eisenstein by the Soviet Central Committee in charge of planning celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution...As he was shooting in Odessa, he decided to narrow his concept and focus on a sole event-a mutiny by a battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians-that reflected the spirit of the times."
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