Word: pudovkin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mothers and Sons (Mosfilm). Veteran Director V. Pudovkin turns his attention to Soviet aviation. Players include E. Korchagina-Alexandrovskaya (as the Mother), J. Stalin (as local color...
...motion picture is the only art peculiar to the 20th Century. As an art it is practically unknown and unstudied. Many who are well acquainted with modern painting, literature, drama and architecture are almost wholly ignorant of the work of such great directors as Pabst, Pudovkin, or Seastrom and of the creative stages in the development of men like Griffith and Chaplin. Yet the films which these and other men made have had an immeasurably great influence on the life and thought of the present generation. . . . The 'primitives' among the movies are only 40 years...
...vitally interested in the reflexes and workings, dissections, and explanations in Russian, of the brains of children, frogs, idiots, or syphiletics, "Mechanics of the Brain" is at best boring. Pudovkin's film records of Professor Ivan Pavlov's physiology research work on the reflex action of the brain, now shown to the public for the first time, should henceforth only be exhibited in biological and psychological laboratories...
...order, that the praise which must be showered on this production be tempered, it should be stated that it is not the equal of Pudovkin's earlier film. Only in the tremendous climax and several scattered moments does it attain the heights of the symphonic flow of visual imagery which was maintained through out "The End of St. Petersburg...
...Pudovkin, as usual, uses real tribesmen and takes the picture in their own country. Verbum sat, Scenery, photography, the stupidity and primitive living conditions of the people, the power, of irresistible forces, and all the possibilities of portraying the struggle of massed human beings, are used to the utmost...