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1929 · 1h 33m · NOT RATED Drama, War
Directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko

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A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. The story of the suppression of the Bolshevik uprising at the Arsenal factory in Kyiv by the Central Council troops.

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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.

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.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

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

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

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