Bezhin lug (1937)

Director:

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Writers:

Isaak Babel (writer)
Sergei M. Eisenstein (writer)
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Genre:

Short | Drama

Plot:

A Soviet farmer son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society.

Plot Keywords:

Arsonist | Arson | Bird | Burial | Chapel

Cast

Viktor Kartashov	...	Stepok (as Vitya Kartashov)
Nikolai Khmelyov	...	Peasant
Pyotr Arzhanov	...	Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)
Yekaterina Teleshova	...	President of Kolkhoz
Nikolai Maslov	...	Arsonist
Yakov Zajtsev
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Stanislav Rostotsky	...	Boy
Boris Zakhava	...	Stepok's Father

Directed by
Sergei M. Eisenstein

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Isaak Babel		writer
Sergei M. Eisenstein		writer
Aleksandr Rzheshevsky		writer
Ivan Turgenev		story

Produced by
V. Ya. Babitsky	....	producer
Boris Shumyatskiy	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Gavriil Popov

Cinematography by
Vladimir Nilsen
Eduard Tisse

Production Design by
Aleksei Utkin
Arnold Vaisfeld

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Pera Atasheva	....	assistant director
F. Filipov	....	assistant director
Mikhail Gomorov	....	assistant director
Jay Leyda	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Vladimir Bogdankevich	....	sound

Production Companies

• Gosudarstvennoe Upravlenie Kinematografii (GUK)

Distributors

• Criterion Collection, The (2001) (DVD) (reconstructed version)

Other Companies

• Kinostudiya "Mosfilm"  production unit

Also Known As:

Bezhin Meadow

Runtime:

USA:31 min

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Gosudarstvennoe Upravlenie Kinematografii (GUK)

Trivia:

Eisenstein was initially unimpressed by the screen test for Viktor Kartashov, but after seeing his interactions with other cast members, he decided the child was right for the part.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Secret Life of Sergei Eisenstein (1987)

I agree with the other user comment I have read on this film:May have been Eisenstein´s best film!!

I saw the reconstruction of this film on the Criterion Collection dvd set Eisenstein: The sound years.The photography is fantastic and I think it would have been a masterpiece but it was destroyed.It could be a bit confusing to follow the story in the reconstruction(it´s something about 30 minutes long)but it´s still very interesting.