Bezhin Meadow = Bezhin Lug

Introduced in English. Eisenstein’s “Bezhin Meadow” was to be a drama set against the background of collectivisation of agriculture and based on the true story of Pavlick Morosov, a little boy who organised his fellow pioneers to guard the harvest so effectively that his own Kulak family, planning sabotage, felt him an enemy of his class and killed him. The result can only be a shadow; but this 1966 half hour reconstruction has a force which makes one regret bitterly what must have been Eisenstein’s finest film. From a story by Ivan Turgenev.

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Credits

production company

Mosfilm

director

Sergei Eisenstein

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places

Soviet Union

Production dates

1934

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324951

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Adaptations

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Collectivism

Foreign language films

History → Soviet Union - History - 1917-1936

Literature → Russian literature - Film and video adaptations

Literature → Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883

People → Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883

Short films

Short films → Short films - Soviet Union

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Soviet Union, 1934

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