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...Director Donskoi's cartoon-capitalists are often fun to look at, if impossible to take seriously, and even moviegoers who cannot believe in Marxist fairy tales will feel the chthonian power of Donskoi's images. In one, a ballroom filled with swilling businessmen whirls like a carousel as the camera slowly descends to discover that this frivolous world of profit and pleasure is being turned by a great mill wheel, and the wheel itself by the sweat and strength of poor men chained like beasts to an eternal round of labor without value, suffering without sense...
...decided to revive it, the Soviet Government didn't spare the rubles. Early last year Producer L. Baratov assembled his huge cast, began lecturing them on the history and customs of the period (1598-1605). They toured the Kremlin, the Historical Museum and the Novo-Devichi and Donskoi monasteries to absorb the proper atmosphere...
Before the first Romanov was born, Donskoi Monastery was building. It rises, barbarous, massive, beautiful, from the sordid fringes of Moscow. Under its countless roofs are a cathedral and six churches. Through its courtyard are always passing "black" monks, mitred abbots, bishops, for high sacrifice...
...brought him a Soviet magazine, showed him a cartoon -Bolshevik Zinoviev climbing up a ladder into the clouds with a sledgehammer ready to annihilate five trembling figures which were labeled: "Jesus Christ, God the Father, Jehovah, Allah, Satan." But each bore the face of Tikhon. The old priest smiled: "Donskoi was before the Romanovs, and after Zinoviev will be Donskoi...
Last week, thousands trooped to Donskoi-this time to the Cathedral, where the bright yellows of Claudio's frescos, the Titian-red of ikons, the jeweled lamps broke the darkness. Upon a catafalque near the altar was laid a dead and gorgeous prelate, a mitre on his head, silks and satins about his body-his white hands stretched out. The thousands sobbed and groaned while priest after priest intoned the sacred words which Dr. Tikhon could not hear...
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