Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film
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.
Year: 1968
Genre: Drama
Studio: State Cinematography Department
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Cast: Viktor Kartashov, Boris Zakhava, Pyotr Arzhanov, Yekaterina Teleshova, Nikolai Maslov, Nikolai Khmelyov
Crew: Sergei Eisenstein (Director), Sergei Eisenstein (Writer), Isaak Babel (Writer), Ivan Turgenev (Story), Alexandr Rzheshevsky (Writer), Sergei Yutkevich (Archival Footage Coordinator)
Runtime: 31 minutes
Release: Mar 04, 1968
IMDb: 5.90/10 by 26 users
Popularity: 3
Country: Soviet Union
Language: No Language, Pусский
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : politically incorrect
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