| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) |
| Playing Time |
Duration: 62 minutes |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Features: Pyotr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, Nikolai Cherkasov |
| Event |
Originally produced by Ruscico - Russian Cinema Council in 1934. |
| Summary |
This philosophical parable, filmed in the style of Russian lubok, is one of the unknown cinematic masterpieces. A poor peasant, Khmyr, sets out in search of happiness. At first, he is lucky: he finds a purse with money, buys a horse and reaps a big harvest in the fall. But the caricature trio - a wealthy peasant, a landowner and a clergyman take from him everything he has. After which time, Khmyr goes to war"¦Back from the war, he joins a collective farm but turns out to be the poorest worker. Once he helps to catch thieves plundering the collective property and gains respect of his co-workers. Is Khmyr to become like everyone else? The film was highly acclaimed by Sergei Eisenstein. In the 1970s it was shown on TV in Europe the USA. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In Silent, Subtitles in English |
| Indexed Term |
Early Film |
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European/Baltic Studies |
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Foreign Language Film |
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Movies |
| Added Author |
Medvedkin, Aleksandr, filmmaker
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1120967 Kanopy |
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