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...same in other subjects. In geography we studied about America for one hour, about Russia for a complete school year. In literature we heard about Solohov, Gorki, Fagejev and Majakovski, but very little about Shakespeare, Moliere, Dante or Goethe. Even the Russian classicists, Tolstoy, Dotoevski or Pushkin were dismissed as minor figures...
...note at the beginning of The Lower Depths states that before the film was made, Maxim Gorki approved approved the adaptation. Unfortunately for Gorki he praiseworthy aspects of the picture are not 3 result of his lines, but of Jean Renoir's direction and the acting of Louis Jouvet and Jean Gabin...
...Gorki's sordid portrayal of life in a tenement basement is heavy with platitudes and cumbersome dialogue, and during the central part of the film when the adaptation follows the play most closely, interest falls to a dangerous low. Only by some humorous scenes added at the beginning of the picture, by good camera work in the beer-garden scene, and by the killing of the landlord towards the end, does Renoir rescue his material from itself...
...Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko. A powerful fiction account of the death of Maxim Gorki, by the famed ex-code clerk turned novelist (TIME, June...
...Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko. The powerfully fictionalized decline and death of Maxim Gorki, with sidelights on Soviet man, by the famed ex-code clerk turned novelist (TIME, July...