Word: filmcraft
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...technicians seem artificial or flamboyant by comparison. They have also learned to expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture of a peasant marriage includes most of the virtues and few of the defects of Russian filmcraft. A farmer who falls in love with a young girl gets his son to marry her so as to bring her to his house. While his son is in the army he rapes his daughter-in-law and has a child by her, which precipitates tragedy when the soldier...
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