Word: lenfilm
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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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...