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Arsenal (1929)

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The Arsenal features Semyon Svashenko as Tyrnish, a humble Ukranian soldier. Through Tyrnish's experiences we are permitted to witness the incredible social upheavals of the World War I years which led to the Russian revolution. The film's setpiece is the 1918 Kiev worker's rebellion. The White Russian troops are clearly the villains of the piece--faceless automatons who blindly follow orders while flesh-and-blood types like Tyrnsh suffer hope, fear and anguish. Arsenal was the first of

PG, 1 hr. 10 min.

Art House & International, Drama

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Alexander Dovzhenko

Feb 11, 2003

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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.

March 25, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
Mordaunt Hall
New York Times
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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.

March 13, 2003 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Represents the summit of Soviet cinema and remains one of the most poetic and visually beautiful of all Russian films.

June 13, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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A work of a thousand images which blends the historical and the mythical along with the raw and the formalized

November 20, 2011 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

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

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
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One of cinema's most harrowing portraits of warfare.

March 13, 2003 Full Review Source: eye WEEKLY | Comment
Jason Anderson
eye WEEKLY
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