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...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...
They Met in Moscow (Artkino), an unpretentious Russian nonwar film, establishes a Second Front in cinemusicals. It proves with great charm that if a director has a healthy appetite for the beauty of the world as it is, "production numbers" are unnecessary...
People's Avengers (Artkino) is a far cry from They Met in Moscow (see above). It was made by 18 Soviet cameramen who parachuted behind the German lines to record the lives and activities of Russian guerrillas, credited with destroying more than a half-million German soldiers. The film is fragmentary, a merely average Russian documentary (aside from its subject). But it resembles They Met in Moscow in so far as the instinct for poetic realism-the dead center of most good cinema-is almost a national Russian characteristic...
Siege of Leningrad (Lenfilm News-reels-Artkino) pictures the cost of the war to Russian civilians. It is a somber film, calculated, to humble U.S. citizens...