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Filmed in handsome chiaroscuro and with an austere camera zest, this Russian film makes for a poignant humanist fable. So does the story of its making and suppression. Writer-Director Alexander Askoldov finished his film in 1967. But the Soviet authorities, accusing Askoldov of "promoting Zionism and . . . imperialist chauvinism," shelved Commissar, and Askoldov has never made another picture. Only last year, as glasnost was opening the door of artistic freedom, was the director able to free his kidnaped film. Commissar won a Silver Bear at the 1988 Berlin Film Festival, though the Soviet press neglected to mention it. A true...
...politics to the smartly dressed, unfailingly polite "delegate" inmates who run the cellblock. Delegate Dalila claimed that all the pavilion's inmates belong to the "authentic" Peruvian Communist Party, which is how Senderistas see themselves. These true believers disdain both the Soviet Union, which they consider to be as imperialist as the U.S., and today's China. Their goal is to establish a workers' state along the lines of Mao Zedong's China. "We believe in armed struggle to take power," said Dalila. "We will fight generations to take it, and we are ready to die if we have...
...first act, the characters are members of a supposedly repressed 1880s British family in colonial Africa. The Big Joke, I suppose, is the shameless promiscuity behind the family's stiff-upper-lip facade. So what? Imperialist Victorians aren't exactly a daring target for satire. They are no harder to make fun of than, say, 1980s yuppies...
...Rhodes intended the scholarship as an institution by which a group of young men would be brought together to further the imperialist ascendancy of Great Britain, but I can't accept that commitment," he said...
...current program has a racist, sexist and imperialist bias," Katz said, noting that one-third of Stanford students are members of a non-Western ethnic background...