Word: artkino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Girl No. 217 (Artkino's tale of slave labor in Germany; TIME, Sept...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino), after a nine-day ride in a sealed, packed boxcar, is lined up with other Russian civilians in a German railway depot. German civilians stroll along the line, lifting a Russian chin now & again with an umbrella handle, for closer scrutiny. The Germans are shopping for slaves. Girl 217 (Elena Kuzmina) goes to a pudgy, henbrained grocer's wife and shares a room with another Russian slave, who is trying, in his scant spare time, to keep up his scientific work...
...Accuse (Artkino-lrvin Shapiro) will not be shown in any of the theaters owned by Hays-office members; that organization disapproves of the film. Its alleged reasons: 1) some of the atrocity shots are shown more than once; 2) the word "damned" is used (it is attributed to the Germans in the line "Let them [Russians] bury their dead and be damned"). Wherever the picture is shown, however, moviegoers will see a powerful and in some respects perplexing record of history-in-the-making...
...weekly gross on Lucasta ($21,000) has hardly varied a quarter a week since the play hit Broadway, and Artkino wants him to bring the show to Moscow - an offer which he plans to ac cept as soon as the New York audiences begin to fall off. At the same time he is enjoying too much freedom and making too much money as a partner in King Bros. Productions, an independent unit with Monogram, to have to feel that his position, for the time being, is im provable. "We are making A stories on a C budget," he explains...
...show at the newly reopened Fine Arts Theatre can be labelled propaganda, so can much of the output of American studios. While the Artkino releases boom the Soviet way of life and the Russian character, Hollywood extols its conception of the average American community. Hollywood's presentation is more polished, but the Russian films have an elemental directness that American moviemakers can rarely capture...