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Arsenal

Ukraine, Soviet Union

1928

70 Min
Black and White
1.33:1
Russian, Silent
Subtitled in English
Audio in Russian
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DIR Aleksandr Dovzhenko

PROD Aleksandr Dovzhenko

SCR Aleksandr Dovzhenko

DP Daniil Demutsky

CAST Semyon Svashenko, Amvrosi Buchma, Georgi Khorkov, Dmitri Erdman, Sergey Petrov, M. Mikhajlovsky

ED Aleksandr Dovzhenko

MUSIC Igor Belza

Synopsis

The Great War (World War I) has brought devastation, heartache, and hardship to the Ukrainian people. Their soldiers, likewise, have faced horrors from the enemy and threats from their own officers. One recently demobilized Ukrainian solider, Timosh, returns home after surviving a train wreck, and arrives during a celebration of Ukrainian freedom. But Timosh begins to challenge the local authorities, and then, at the All-Ukrainian Congress, he calls for the soviet system to be adopted. In Kiev’s Arsenal munitions plant, where Timosh has worked, feelings are running especially high. —IMDb

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Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko stands beside Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin as one of the Soviet Union’s greatest early filmmakers, noted for his passionately poetic, serious and extremely personal films. He is best known for the second film in his distinguished “Ukraine Trilogy,” Earth (1930) an exquisitely photographed tribute to Nature and Ukranian village life; it is the story of a peasant revolt spawned by the actions of a cruel landowner. The film is still often ranked among the top 10 best films of all time. Dovzhenko was born to an uneducated Cossack worker in Sosnitsa, Ukraine. It was his grandfather, who could only read a little, who encouraged young Dovzhenko to study hard; by the time he was 19 the young man had become a teacher. Because Dovzhenko had a bad heart, he did not serve in the military but continued teaching through WW I and through the revolution. He joined the communist party in the early 1920s and served in Poland as an ambassador’s assistant in Warsaw… read more

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Russell E Scott

8May12

Second film of the Dovzhenko trilogy catching up with Timosh (star of Zvenigora) on his return from WW I finding his native Ukraine in industrial, political, and social revolution. not a man to squallor his time and passions, again we bare witness to his ability to tame wildest crowd by mere bravey. this is serious images being brought to bare on a young nation in a bloody revolution that knows no borders, shame, nor ever stopping. awesome.

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NOODLES CHAMS

10Mar12

So powerful

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Dolphin

20Dec11

Some sequences like the beginning of the film is absolutely amazing. The imagery overall is quite astonishing and powerful. And there are some specific compositions that I am especially found off, e.g. the ending. I like the themes of the movie and I think that the director have done an excellent portrayal of the struggles of the workers in Ukraine. It was a bit hard to understand and follow the plot though.

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Wu Yong

27Jul11

What makes an image, especially in cinema and especially in silent cinema, memorable is its lack of reliance on previous formulas to create a visual scope and identity otherwise unknown. From first image to last, everything in this film will be remembered.

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