Word: yakov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the main flaw in the film is the direction, the joint venture of Lev Kulijanov and Yakov Siegel. Although it is supposed to be a continuous story, the movie emerges as a series of different episodes--each one ending with a fade-out that lingers too long on a symbol. This effort at realistic symbolism fails because it is not consistent throughout the film. As soon as the viewer realizes that there will only be a symbol before every fade-out the imagery becomes obvious and uninteresting. The direction lacks subtlety and the camera work is fairly pedestrian...
...annual executive meeting of the Baptist World Alliance in Hamilton. Ont., the Rev. Theodore Adams of Richmond (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955), president of the alliance, charged that Baptists are being persecuted in many Latin countries-especially Spain and Colombia. But in Russia, reported Moscow's red-bearded Rev. Yakov Zhidkov, Baptists are doing nicely. Each year, he said, the Russian Baptist Church gains 10,000 to 15,000 members. He added blandly: "Under the Russian constitution all religions have equal freedom of worship. The atheists have freedom too, and they have places where they teach atheism." Said...
...order of these images is quite important, and Donskoy has paid great attention to their detail. In the midst of a huge brawl between Gorky's uncles, the camera comes suddenly to rest on the spout of the tea service, which is soon discovered by Uncle Yakov who turns the service slightly so that the boiling water pours gently over Uncle Mikhail's hand. Donskoy is a magician at using montage; to accentuate the motion of his picture, he stops...
...Soviet Embassy mansion on London's Kensington Palace Gardens, known locally as "Millionaires' Row," Russia and Japan last week began their first high-level talks since the war. Russian Ambassador Yakov Malik, usually scowly, invited photographers into the Embassy's sacrosanct conference room and smilingly offered a cigarette to the Japanese Ambassador, Shunichi Matsumoto. The Japanese diplomat, who does not smoke, accepted the cigarette and beamed. "Very congenial," said Matsumoto afterwards. "The atmosphere is very warm...
...Sverdlov is named for Old Bolshevik Leader Yakov Sverdlov, a crony of Lenin, and the man who in 1918 ordered the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family...