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Arsenal (1929)

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Reviews Counted:7

Fresh:6

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8.1/10

Runtime: 70 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: Based around an actual event that occurred in the Ukranian Civil War, ARSENAL is an important addition to the complex, montage-based works of director Alexander Dovzhenko. An outnumbered group of... Based around an actual event that occurred in the Ukranian Civil War, ARSENAL is an important addition to the complex, montage-based works of director Alexander Dovzhenko. An outnumbered group of Bolsheviks defend their besieged city from invading nationalist troops; Hiding out in the city's munitions plant (The "Arsenal" to which the title refers), the battle rages to an intense conclusion, with all of Dovzhenko's dizzying skills as a director employed to stunning effect. [More]

Starring: Semyon Svashenko

Starring: Semyon Svashenko

Director: Alexander Dovzhenko

Director: Alexander Dovzhenko

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Feb 11, 2003

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  • This avant-garde masterpiece from renowned Ukranian director Alexander Dovzhenko employs the most complex and elliptical montage style of any Soviet masters in this treatment of events from the Ukranian Civil War. Based on an actual incident from 1913, the story concerns a group of Bolsheviks who battle counter-revolutionary nationalist troops in Kiev, putting up an Alamo-like defense of their cause inside the city's "Arsenal" munitions plant. Outnumbered by the nationalist troops, the defenders demonstrate their revolutionary spirit in the climactic battle which displays a dazzling mixture of traditional Ukranian folklore with modernist film techniques for a dazzling collage!
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    Although one is impelled to be in thorough sympathy with its argument against war, one cannot but help feeling that one-fourth of the footage of this production would be ample for one sitting.

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    It set a standard for other film-makers to reach.

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    05/24/03
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    One of cinema's most harrowing portraits of warfare.

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    03/13/03
    Jason Anderson
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    More clearly influenced by Sergei Eisenstein than any of Dovzhenko's other pictures, it's certainly the one that uses fast editing in the most exciting fashion.

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    03/13/03
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    Represents the summit of Soviet cinema and remains one of the most poetic and visually beautiful of all Russian films.

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