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Shakespeare in Russian is a wondrous thought. But it has been done and Lenfilm Studio's production of Twelfth Night is done quite well. There are a few perilous moments. When Viola first sees Duke Orsino whom she is to wed, she rips off her unfeminine cloak and, radiant in something like a strapless evening gown, exclaims (in Russian), "I'll serve him." The next shot shows the duke, his fair hair rippling in the wind, gazing like a bowsprit at the horizon...
...adaptation of a Chekhov story. It is a relentless dissection of a frivolous woman with delusions of culture, and of the effete salon riffraff that surrounded her in the days of the Czar. For the days of the commissars, the Soviets did less well, e.g., An Unfinished Novel (Lenfilm), in which all the resources of Soviet medicine fail to cure a paralyzed engineer, but when the girl doctor of his dreams rushes to his bedside in the last reel, he walks again...
...Turning Point (Lenfilm-Arikino) is a Russian-made semi-documentary billed as the "inside story" of the siege of Stalingrad. The film is superb Soviet propaganda, an interesting historical footnote to one of World War II's decisive battles-and surprisingly exciting entertainment...
Siege of Leningrad (Lenfilm News-reels-Artkino) pictures the cost of the war to Russian civilians. It is a somber film, calculated, to humble U.S. citizens...
Professor Mamlock (Lenfilm-Amkino...