Word: amkino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company, called it Amkino (American Cinema...
Fortnight ago Amkino announced abruptly that henceforth U. S. cinemaddicts would not see these or any other Russian films again. With very un-Russian haste Amkino was shutting up shop, liquidating. In explanation reticent officials of Amkino had little to say. Boiled down that little was: business is bad-Soviet talkies have always been less popular in the U. S. than Soviet silent films; Soviet films are not so good as they used to be; the Moscow-Berlin pact and the invasion of Finland finished Russian pictures in the U. S. One admission Amkino officials made might or might...
They Wanted Peace (Amkino). An ironically titled Russian film which demonstrates that Soviet directors can still handle people in masses with a realism and a feeling for mob movement unknown to Hollywood. Its story of Russian efforts to fraternize with the German Army in 1917 also conveys some unintentional advice to wise Finns from Bolshevik Leader Lenin. His recipe for breaking up an invading army: "Turn the imperialist war into a civil war." Like pipe-smoking Comrade Stalin, whom the picture glorifies, producers, scripters and most of the actors in this Russian film are Georgians...