The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-17
NEW SOVIET FILMS
Tolstoy's "The Living Corpse" and Gorlis
Famous Story New Being Screened

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THE latest news from the Moscow
film studies has it that Maxim
Cork has at last given his consent
to Sovkino to film his book, "The
Story Of the Book Clasp" Alexan-
dra Khokhlova, one of the best di-
rectors of the Sovkino, will WELD
the megaphone.
Of the other new films, already
released or almost completed, the
press department Of the Soviet film
makers are kind enough to give the
following details to the readers of
our dramatic columns;
Late this month will be released
a big sporting film, "Spartakiade,"
"shot" during the competition in
Moscow.
"Ten Deaths" Started.
Director U. Taritch (author of
wings of Slave" "Ivan the Ter
rible," "Bulyat Batir" and Gap
tain's Daughter") is producing a
new film, "Ten Deaths" 1t is based
on the history of the Russian Rev
olution and shows the revolutionary
struggle of the Russian and Polish
workers against the Tzarist auto
crazy.
Sovkino has also started work on
film based on the story of the
proletarian writer, 1.-THE Quiet
Dom" by NJ. Sholokhova, which is
very popular among the workers.
The movie houses report great
success of exploits in the Ice"
(rescuing expedition of "Krassin
and Malygina" for the "Italia") 4,
photographed by the authors with
the expedition.
Director o. Preobrazhenskaya, di-
rector of the film women of Rya-
Fan" and "The Bright City," is
screening the picture Agitation
Car" picturing the participation of
artists in the Civil War.
"Unwanted Hostility"
B. Urtsev, director and author of
the children's films, "The Torn
Sleeve" has been commissioned by
Sovkino to get out the film "Un-
wanted Hostility" for the 10th In
ternational Women's Day. The
theme of the picture is the promot-
ing of workwomen to responsible
positions and the "unwanted" COM
petition between men and women
workers.
In carrying out the campaign
against alcoholism, the Soviet Gin
ema plays a particularly important
role. Sovkino has demonstrated this
point in "Alarm," where is por-
trayed that owing to drunkenness
the workers productiveness of la
Dor drops at the factory, and then
how after an accident he goes in
sane.
A second film on this subject,
"The Crooked Line" gives an ex-
ample of the battles of workers
club with a public house and the
victory of the club when the club
drew into it's work the wives of
workers.
Culture in the Village. !
That the fight for new culture
is not limited to the town, but is
also carried on in the village, is
shown. in the film "Tanka of the
Eating House." The film shows
the struggle of the village social
organizations against the Kulaks,
and the fight of the village social
workers for a new Tea-House to
replace the village public-house.
Of the many scientific films re-
Gently completed, the picture cal
cohol" is the outstanding. Its pro-
duction was greatly aided by the
participation of N. Semashko, Peo-
ple's Commissar for Health, and
Prof. Fursikova. The picture por-
trays the experiments conducted BY
the Institute of Pathological Ply
siology and the Institute for the
Study of Nerve Activity at the
Communist Academy.
Tolstoy's Living Corpse"
Based on the theme of the story
by Leo Tolstoy "The Living
Corpse" Mezhrapom-Film together
with the German Cinema organize
ton Promutes, is working on film
titled 1.-THE Lawful Marriage" II
will be "shot" by V. Pudovkin, OF
"Mother" and END of st. Peters
burg" fame. The well-known act
resses Nata Vatchnandze and Ma
rie Yakobin play in this film, The
well-known Austrian actor Gusta,
DIESEL has been invited to accept
the role of Karenina. The picture
will be "shot" in Germany ant
USSR.
Another film by the same organi
cation is titled "26 Commissars,
end will be directed by V. Meier