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Arsenal (Ukrainian: Арсенал, also alternative title January Uprising in Kyiv in 1918[1]) is a 1929 Soviet war film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko.[2] The film was shot at Odessa Film Factory of VUFKU with the camera of legendary cameraman Danyl Demutskyi and using the original sets made by Volodymyr Muller. The expressionist imagery, perfect camera work and original drama took the film far beyond the usual propaganda and made it one of the most important pieces of Ukrainian avant-garde cinema.[3][4] The film was made in 1928 and released early in 1929.[1][5] It is the second film in his "Ukraine Trilogy", the first being Zvenigora (1928) and the third being Earth (1930).
| Arsenal | |
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 Stenberg brothers' film poster | |
| Directed by | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| Written by | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| Produced by | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| Starring | Semyon Svashenko Nikolai Nademsky Amvrosy Buchma Les Podorozhnij |
| Cinematography | Danylo Demutsky |
| Music by | Igor Belza |
| Distributed by | Odessa Film Factory of VUFKU |
Release date |
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Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Languages | Silent film Russian intertitles |
The film concerns an episode in the Russian Civil War in 1918 in which the Kiev Arsenal January Uprising of workers aided the besieging Bolshevik army against the Ukrainian national Parliament Central Rada who held legal power in Ukraine at the time. Regarded by film scholar Vance Kepley, Jr. as "one of the few Soviet political films which seems even to cast doubt on the morality of violent retribution", Dovzhenko's eye for wartime absurdities (for example, an attack on an empty trench) anticipates later pacifist sentiments in films by Jean Renoir and Stanley Kubrick.
Cast
- Semyon Svashenko - Timosha
- Georgiy Kharkiv - Red Army
- Amvrosy Buchma - German soldier in glasses
- Dmitri Erdman - a German officer
- Sergey Petrov - a German soldier
- K. Mikhailovsky - nationalist
- Alexander Evdakov - Nicholas II
- Andrei Mikhailovsky - nationalist
References
- Арсенал - информация о фильме (in Russian). Kino-teatr.ru. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
- Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 62–63. ISBN 1442268425.
- Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 252–255.
- Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre
- Magill's Survey of Silent Films, Vol.1 A-FLA p.152 edited by Frank N. Magill c.1982 ISBN 0-89356-240-8 (3 book set ISBN 0-89356-239-4)
External links
- Arsenal (full version), Odessa Film Studios
- Arsenal at IMDb
- Arsenal at AllMovie
- Ray Uzwyshyn's Visual Exploration of Arsenal
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На других языках
- [en] Arsenal (1929 film)
[ru] Арсенал (фильм)
«Арсена́л» — кинопоэма советского режиссёра Александра Довженко. В основе немой революционной эпопеи трагедия январского восстания в Киеве в 1918 году. Второй фильм так называемой «украинской трилогии» Довженко («Звенигора», «Арсенал», «Земля»). Фильм также известен под названием «Январское восстание в Киеве в 1918 году».Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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