Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film

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

Stepok (as Vitya Kartashov)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Boris Zakhava

Samokhin, Stepok's Father

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Pyotr Arzhanov

Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)

Age : 77 | Popularity : 3%

Yekaterina Teleshova

President of Kolkhoz

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Nikolai Maslov

Arsonist

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Nikolai Khmelyov

Peasant

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Stanislav Rostotsky

Boy

Age : 79 | Popularity : 3%

Yakov Zajtsev

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

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

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