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...families nibbled at the state farms, decollectivized an estimated six million acres. They hoarded the grain and refused to give it up to the commissars. At first they got away with it. Fearful of massive famine in the wake of war, the Kremlin temporized with the muzhik's lust for land that he could call his own. The Council of Ministers agreed to let the state farms be worked by family groups or by ex-soldiers, banded together in "links" of eight to ten men apiece. Many of the "linkers," explained one of them who escaped, "were peasant soldiers...
Following a path charted centuries ago by medieval scholastics, The Seven Deadly Sins slips deftly and incisively through the traditional septet of human failings: avarice, anger, sloth, lust, envy, gluttony and pride...
Three of them are serious in tone-lust, envy, and pride. Roberto Rossellini's Envy, based on a story from Collette, is a frightening study of a wife's insane jealousy of her husband's cat. Orfeo Tamburi gives a sensitive portrayal of the artist husband, while Andree Debar powerfully plays the sulking, possessive wife who brings to her marriage little more than her physical appeal...
...Lust, directed by Yves Allegret, is a penetrating look into early adolescence. A young girl, delicately played by Francette Vernillat, thinks her admiration and affection for an artist will cause her to bear a child. Director Allegret adds tremendous tension to the story by directorial touches such as focusing the camera on a run-down phonograph while the child's widowed mother and her lover are alone in an adjoining room...
...Vlaanderen, the policeman, faces the problems of a full-blooded man who suffers from a prudish wife, a puritanical society and his own rigidly conventional conscience. So, after a long moral struggle that is talked about a great deal but hardly described at all, he gives in to his lust and goes after the girl Stephanie. By the scheming of a subordinate on the police force, he is caught, tried, and sent to jail (under South Africa's Immorality Act). His father, a stern old Boer scratches his name out of the family Bible and quietly dies. His wife...