Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film

Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film (1968)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1968-03-04
  • User Rating: 5.9/10 from 26 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 31min
  • Language: No Language
  • Production Company: State Cinematography Department
  • Production Country: Soviet Union
  • Director: Sergei Eisenstein
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Summary

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.

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  • 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
Directing Sergei Eisenstein Director
Writing Sergei Eisenstein Writer
Writing Isaak Babel Writer
Writing Ivan Turgenev Story
Writing Alexandr Rzheshevsky Writer
Editing Sergei Yutkevich Archival Footage Coordinator
Editing Klavdia Aleyeve Editor
Editing Sergei Yutkevich Supervising Editor
Sound Boris Volsky Sound
Directing Pera Atasheva Assistant Director

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