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TMDB Rating 5.9

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Status: Released

Average Rating: 6

Release Date: Mar 4, 1968

Rating: 1968-03-04

Run Time: 12h 31m

Original Language: Russian

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Production Countries: Soviet Union

Production Companies: State Cinematography Department


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Synopsis

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.


Main Cast

Viktor Kartashov

Viktor Kartashov

Stepok (as Vitya Kartashov)

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Boris Zakhava

Boris Zakhava

Samokhin, Stepok's Father

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Pyotr Arzhanov

Pyotr Arzhanov

Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)

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Yekaterina Teleshova

Yekaterina Teleshova

President of Kolkhoz

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Nikolai Maslov

Nikolai Maslov

Arsonist

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Nikolai Khmelyov

Nikolai Khmelyov

Peasant

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Stanislav Rostotsky

Stanislav Rostotsky

Boy

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Yakov Zajtsev

Yakov Zajtsev

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Crew

Department Role Name
Writing Writer
Isaak Babel
Isaak Babel
Alexandr Rzheshevsky
Alexandr Rzheshevsky
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Story
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Directing Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Sound Sound
Boris Volsky
Boris Volsky
Editing Archival Footage Coordinator
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Yutkevich
Supervising Editor
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Yutkevich
Editor
Klavdia Aleyeve
Klavdia Aleyeve
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