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Mashenka (Artkino) is a simple, tender Russian tale of a Red Army tank man and a nurse. Its background is the Russo-Finnish War, its showpiece a superb battle scene. The love story has to overcome the handicaps of wooden English subtitles, sluggish direction and drab staging. Says Hero Mikhail Kuznetzov, laying bare his passion to Heroine Valentina Karavayeva: "Mashenka, in our time the fate of the world is being decided, and that fate must be decided by us. We are facing a stern and militant life, and I want to share that life with...
Moscow Strikes Back (Artkino). In World War II the Nazis have won most of the land battles and taken all the best pictures of them. Their newsreels, cautiously edited for foreign consumption, have daintily omitted the detailed carnage of war, presenting it as a streamlined holocaust in which the high-stepping Nazi backs make all the touchdowns. Moscow Strikes Back has about everything the Nazi films have had-plus the carnage...
Guerrilla Brigade (Artkino) is a significant footnote to history. It went before the cameras in July 1939-one month before the Nazi-Soviet mutual non-aggression pact was signed. Several months later it was released. Since all Soviet films must have Government approval to be shown, the picture is proof that the Russians, despite the pact, knew that the Germans were their enemies and were preparing to fight them...
...Russian Front (Artkino). Skillfully put together by Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front) and Producer Joris Ivens (The Spanish Earth) from thousands of feet of Soviet newsreels and shorts, this is an informative record of the Russians' 150 days that shook the world...
Professor H. W. L. Dana '08, of the Cambridge School of the Drama, has arranged with the management of the Artkino Guild to take his class to see "Ten Days That Shook the World", the film now playing at the Fine Arts Theatre, and lecture on the details of the film while it is on the screen. This special lecture, scheduled for this afternoon at the showing beginning at 5 o'clock, will be open to the general public as well. Professor Dana has had several interviews in Europe with Serge Eisenstein; director of this film, and has found Eisenstein...