Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film (1968)
Synopsis
Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. Assigned to Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, the filming followed the same path as with his previous effort, "Que Viva Mexico", into cost overrun and over-shooting of footage. Furthermore, Eisenstein's usage of forbidden experimental film techniques outraged his government superiors, who ordered the film destroyed before it was even completed. All that survives are the first and last frames of each shot, preserved by Sergei Eisenstein’s wife, Pera Atasheva. The 1967 reconstruction, by Naum Kleiman of the Eisenstein Museum and Sergei Yutkevich of Gosfilmofond, places these frames in order, approximating the original film.
Release Date: 1968-03-04
Runtime: 31 minutes
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Top Cast
- Viktor Kartashov as Степок
- Boris Zakhava as Samokhin, Stepok's Father
- Pyotr Arzhanov as Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)
- Yekaterina Teleshova as President of Kolkhoz
- Nikolai Maslov as Arsonist
- Nikolai Khmelyov as Peasant
- Stanislav Rostotsky as Boy
- Yakov Zajtsev as
- Evgenia Bagorskaya as
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