Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Padenie dinastii Romanovykh (1927)

English title: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

Documentary consisting of documental footage depicting the years that preceded the Russian Revolution, starting in the early 1910s. Marxist-Leninist intertitles provide the filmmaker's interpretation of the images.

Absurd as it may be to illustrate the role of war manufacturers in World War I with shots of a camera-shy factory owner -- and this kind of thing happens repeatedly in this film -- it has obvious interest to people interested in History, or who simply want to watch very old footage.

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