Archive for February, 2010

Mother is a 1926 Soviet film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin depicting one woman’s struggle against Tsarist rule during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The film is based on a novel of the same title by Maxim Gorky.

The first sound film of Dziga Vertov, this is a tribute to the first Soviet 5 year plan.

Arsenal is a 1928 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko. It is the second film in his “Ukraine Trilogy”, the first being Zvenigora (1928) and the third being Earth (1930).

The film concerns an episode in the Russian Civil War in 1918 in which the Kiev Arsenal January Uprising of workers aided the besieging Bolshevik army against the Ukrainian nationalist Central Rada who held power within Kiev at the time