Word: sholokhov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among the best of the Soviet films seen in the U.S. during the current three-year-old cultural exchange, this one tells the agonizing story of a village carpenter whose life is shattered by war. Based on a story by Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov...
...Among the best of the Soviet films seen in the U.S. during the current three-year-old cultural exchange, this one tells the agonizing story of a village carpenter whose life is shattered by war. Based on a story by Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov...
Fate of a Man. An excellent Russian film about a village carpenter whose life is shattered by war, based on a story by Mikhail (Quiet Don) Sholokhov...
...would have been easy to turn such a story (written by Mikhail Sholokhov, author of And Quiet Flows the Don) into an annoying cornet solo on the unbreakable spirit of Mother Russia. The horns are heard, of course, but Actor Bondarchuk's performance is far too good for them to be oppressive. His hero is a man; when fate reduces him to flotsam, it is a grievous loss, and when he finds the little boy, his relit face shows love. For the most part, Bondarchuk directs as well as he acts. Some of his visual effects are excellent...
...Sholokhov piece, The Colt, is the simpler, but also the more profoundly motivated, of the two. Its hero is born in the middle of a cavalry campaign during the civil war that followed the 1917 Revolution. The Red Army soldier who owns its mother, Andrei Matreyev, curses and spits and finally decides to keep it. The squadron commander, Dmitri Parkhovomenha, blusters and shouts, and finally decides to let him keep it, too. So the colt tags along through the battle and bivouac, until the soldier is killed during an attack, while trying to save it from drowning...