Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film (1968)
Overview
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ru |
| Popularity | 5.232 |
Directed By
Sergei Eisenstein
Crew
Isaak Babel
Ivan Turgenev
Alexandr Rzheshevsky
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Boris Volsky
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Yutkevich
Klavdia Aleyeve
TOP CAST
Viktor Kartashov
Stepok (as Vitya Kartashov)
Boris Zakhava
Samokhin, Stepok's Father
Pyotr Arzhanov
Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)
Yekaterina Teleshova
President of Kolkhoz
Nikolai Maslov
Arsonist
Nikolai Khmelyov
Peasant
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