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Peter the First (Lenfilm) is a colossally bad imitation of Hollywood's super-colossal technique. It attempts to compress Tolstoy's story of the 36-year reign (1689-1725) of Peter the Great into ten reels, showing Peter as an anti-religious reformer, a groundbreaker for Stalin. The picture places boisterous emphasis on Peter's essential democracy, particularly his wiving of the Lithuanian commoner who later became Catherine I. Colossal capstone: Peter, toasting Russia's bright future, publicly bussing the bare bottom of Catherine's first-born child...
...Return of Maxim (Lenfilm). Maxim (Boris Chirkov) personifies the spirit of the Russian revolution. Part I (The Youth of Maxim) introduced him as an oppressed worker in Tsarist Russia (TIME, April 29, 1935). His Return shows him as a wary revolutionist two years later...
Baltic Deputy (Lenfilm). A universally noble cinema theme, of which the most prominent U. S. exponent is Paul Muni (Zola, Pasteur), is the life story of the great-hearted man of science. To be worth his epitaph in Russia, however, a scientist must also hew to the Marxian line. Such a one was Professor Arcady Klimentievich Timiriazev, sometime lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge, and professor of plant physiology at the Moscow State University. The explosion of the Russian Revolution, when he was 75, brought down his grey hairs not in sorrow but in grandeur to the grave, gave Soviet cinema...
Peasants (Lenfilm) is the sequel to Chapayev and The Youth of Maxim in the cinema trilogy which won first prize at Moscow's Cinema Festival last spring. Like Chapayev, which dealt with an incident in the early days of the Russian Revolution, and The Youth of Maxim, which was concerned with the first serious labor disturbances in Tsarist factories, Peasants takes collective farming as its theme, consciously makes of it an advertisement rather than a drama. Like its two predecessors, however, it is an advertisement so forcefully constructed and so intelligently presented, that, even for U. S. audiences...
...Youth of Maxim (Lenfilm) relates the adventures which transform a jolly young factory worker into a hard-working member of the party which preserved the spark of the Russian Revolution after the unsuccessful revolt of 1905. When first seen, Maxim (Boris Chirkov) is stumping off to work cheerfully enough with his two companions, Andrei and Dyoma. Andrei is killed in a factory accident caused by an overseer's neglect. In the riots that follow, Dyoma kills a policeman. He and Maxim are carted off to jail where Dyoma is shot. By the time Maxim is freed, he is ready...