Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film

Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film (1968)

Released: 1968-03-04 Duration: 31min
Genres: Drama
Rating 5.9

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.

Production Companies

State Cinematography Department

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language ru
Popularity 1.532

Directed By

Sergei Eisenstein

Crew

Writer
Isaak Babel
Archival Footage Coordinator
Sergei Yutkevich
Supervising Editor
Sergei Yutkevich

TOP CAST

Viktor Kartashov
Viktor Kartashov

Stepok (as Vitya Kartashov)

Boris Zakhava
Boris Zakhava

Samokhin, Stepok's Father

Pyotr Arzhanov
Pyotr Arzhanov

Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)

Yekaterina Teleshova
Yekaterina Teleshova

President of Kolkhoz

Nikolai Maslov
Nikolai Maslov

Arsonist

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