Torn Boots
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.
Year: 1933
Genre: Drama
Studio: Mezhrabpomfilm
Director: Margarita Barskaya
Cast: Mikhail Klimov, Ivan Novoseltsev, Varvara Alyokhina, Klavdiya Polovikova, Vladimir Uralskiy, Lev Losev
Crew: Margarita Barskaya (Director), Vissarion Shebalin (Original Music Composer), Sarkis Gevorkyan (Director of Photography), Georgi Bobrov (Director of Photography), Margarita Barskaya (Writer), David Blok (Original Music Composer)
Runtime: 85 minutes
Release: Dec 17, 1933
IMDb: 1.00/10 by 1 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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