Word: pavlik
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Moscow, Director Eisenstein has spent the last two years and 2,000,000 Government rubles on a picture called Bezhin Meadow, about Pavlik Morozov, twelve-year-old Soviet Martyr who was killed by kulaks (landowning farmers) for informing the Government of chicaneries by his kulak father. Last week, one version of Bezhin Meadow already having proved unsatisfactory, the second version was previewed by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party. Result of the preview was that the Committee banned the picture as "inartistic and politically bankrupt." Main sin of Director Eisenstein seemed to have been that he "confused...