Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FICTION 1-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre (1 last week) 2-Centennial, Michener (3) 3-The Dogs of War, Forsyth (2) 4-Jaws, Bench/ey (6) 5-House of a Thousand Lanterns, Holt (4) 6-Watership Down, Adams (5) 7-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (7) 8-Cashelmara, Howafch (9) 9-The War Between the Tates, Lorie (8) 10-The Silver Bears, Erdman (10) NONFICTION 1 -All the President' s Men, Bernsfein & Woodward (1) 2-The Memory Book, Lorayne & Lucas(2) 3-The Woman He Loved, Martin (3) 4-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne...
Ballad of a Soldier was produced in 1960, well into the Kruschev period, and not surprisingly, it is totally non-ideological. It is a simple, at times overly sentimental, but extremely successful demonstration of the disruptive effect of the war on the lives of individuals, and on the fabric of society at large...
Alyosha, a nineteen-year-old soldier away from home for the first time, is rewarded for an act of bravery at the front by being granted six days leave to travel home and see his mother. The war is going very badly--apparently this takes place in the Fall of 1941--and the film is the story of Alyosha's odyssey, journeying from the collapsing front lines back into the heartland of Russia. He is sidetracked during the trip by several isolated episodes. He comes to the aid of a soldier who, having lost a leg in combat, is afraid...
...torn a society apart, and for a few brief moments its victims are struggling to recapture a past forever lost, or discover experiences never known. Absent is the business-as-usual optimism of most American films about the Second World War. There is a sense in Ballad of a Soldier that nothing will ever be the same...
Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky is historically a fitting complement to Ballad of a Soldier. Made in 1938, it represents Eisenstein's effort to re-integrate himself with the Stalin regime after a long period of disfavor. Alexander Nevsky is in every sense a one-dimensional film. Its theme is patriotism, and its message, directed in no uncertain terms at Nazi Germany, is that Russia will ward off any attempt at conquest. The film takes place in 1242, when combined Russian armies under the leadership of Prince Alexander Nevsky, defeated the invading German force. Eisenstein uses these events...