Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tender Russian tale of a Red Army tank man and a nurse. Its background is the Russo-Finnish War, its showpiece a superb battle scene. The love story has to overcome the handicaps of wooden English subtitles, sluggish direction and drab staging. Says Hero Mikhail Kuznetzov, laying bare his passion to Heroine Valentina Karavayeva: "Mashenka, in our time the fate of the world is being decided, and that fate must be decided by us. We are facing a stern and militant life, and I want to share that life with...
...hand in hand with basic social reforms. This belief, voiced in many public utterances, he bases on a lifetime spent in the study of economics and years of experience with social problems. Contemptuous of crackpot Utopias, he backs his statements up with figures, for which he has an abiding passion...
...American's passion for success, says Author Mead, must be added other deep-rooted characteristics. One is the conviction that an American must be able to "take it." But as a balance to this "toughness" is the expanded American form of British "fair play" - the dislike of "picking on" a weaker person...
...Today Germany and Italy want to occupy North Africa. America forestalls them and assures us of her loyal and disinterested support. We cannot neglect this opportunity of recovery. I take up my action station among you. We have one passion-France; and one aim-victory...
Among the other pictures scheduled to be shown by the Film Society is "The Passion of Joan of Are," a silent film which ranks with some of the best contemporary sound films. This picture, directed by Carl-Theodor Dreyer, was produced by La Societe Generale de Films...