Torn Boots

Synopsis

Working with children led Barskaya to create superb direct sound and an inspired style of shooting. Don’t look for conventional cinematic syntax here. The film is chaotic in the way that Soviet films still knew how to be, and Langlois couldn’t help but be seduced by its rebellious spirit, its anarchy and love of children, comparable to Vigo’s Zero de conduite. As well as being a film made with and for children, it offers a complex take on Western society. Pre-Nazi Germany is not named as such but is carefully reconstructed, possibly under advice from Karl Radek, and children offer a playful reflection of class struggle – doubly excluded, as proletarians and as minors. “They play in the same way that they live”, one intertitle says. The interaction between their comical games and the yet more ludicrous ones played by adults is developed on several levels.

Main Cast

Mikhail Klimov

Age : 61 | Popularity : 3%

Klavdiya Polovikova

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Vera Alyokhina

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Natalia Sadovskaya

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Ivan Novoseltsev

Age : 36 | Popularity : 3%

Vladimir Mikhaylov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Anna Chekulaeva

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Vladimir Uralskiy

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Art	Art Direction	Vladimir Egorov
Directing	Director	Margarita Barskaya
Writing	Writer	Margarita Barskaya
Camera	Director of Photography	Georgi Bobrov Sarkis Gevorkyan
Sound	Original Music Composer	Vissarion Shebalin David Blok
Department	Role	Name

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