Word: pudovkin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Last week Moviemaker Pudovkin showed that he at last knew in whose fist the button of Truth reposed. Said he: "The directives of the Central Committee taught us a lot. ... It seems all these conclusions are so simple we should have known them before...
...Magyarish English: "This Victorian phrase, 'with dismay' and 'cinematograph film' just slays me. You would think it would be someone from Barbaria who would come to undo a masterpiece. I just try to make a good 'cinematograph film.' " Famed Russian Directors Eisenstein and Pudovkin had promised to help, added Korda...
...list of six programs for the coming year includes, in addition to American comedy, German expressionist pictures, realistic movies of the German director Pabst and the Russian Pudovkin. French satire, and modern documentary films...