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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Okraina (Outskirts) 1933 - A masterpiece of early Russian sound cinema
Director: Boris Barnet Main Cast: Alexander Chistyakov, Sergei Komarov, Yelena Kuzmina
"Outskirts, from great Soviet director Boris Barnet, is a strange little film - it drifts along amiably for the first half, then radically changes direction twice. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
It is also a mishmash of genres, going from comedy to drama to neorealism to propaganda, and never really defines itself. However, all of the above doesn't add up to a lousy or incomprehensible movie; quite the opposite. Outskirts is a great film, one of the very best from the early Russian sound era (around 1932-1939) and likely one of the top 50 Russian films of all time."
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