Word: nakhimov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian culture cops have been playing "Truth, truth, who's got the Historical Truth?" with a new Soviet film called Admiral Nakhimov, about a Russian naval hero of the Crimean war. After a private showing, the Communist Party's Central Committee had growled: "The historical truth has been profoundly distorted," ordered veteran Moviemaker Vsevelod Illarionovich Pudovkin to remake his film...
Fortnight ago, Pudovkin's new, enlightened version appeared, stripped of frivolous love scenes and staggering with political significance. Purred Red Star's Reviewer V. Ilienko: "The directors of the film have corrected their mistake. . . . He [Admiral Nakhimov] anxiously observes the events behind the scenes of European diplomacy, and knows where the real enemies of Russia...
...fair question to ask why at this moment the Russian theater is so retrospective-why new plays are being produced this season on Ivan the Terrible and on Admiral Nakhimov of the Crimean War; why so much reverence is accorded to Chekhov, who perhaps foreshadowed the Revolution in his plays but certainly satirized revolutionaries. It has been fashionable in America to attribute this to an abatement of Russia's revolutionary and communistic spirit. This seems to me wrong. A better guess is that this country, shaken within a few inches of its life by this war, has, like...