The trauma of the war on the civilian population will be documented by contemporary films. The course will examine the fate of culture under totalitarianism and study subterfuges used by novelists, dramatists, and artists to circumvent political control and censorship. In the 1920's Soviet film makers armed with bold new ideas about cinematic art and with a revolutionary political ideology created the theory of film montage and through it a decade of acknowledged masterpieces. However, after Stalin's death experimentation and diversity reemerged in Soviet cinema. The course will examine this rich history in terms of both themes and styles.
Plot concerns the assassination by kulaks of a collective farm activist.
In the melodramatic and exhortative style to become typical for socialist realism, Ekk chronicles the transformation of a gang of juvenile delinquent orphans into a dedicated collective. The Contemporary Period. Personal Themes and Styles. Philosophical Religious, and Ethnic values. Political and Social Critique.