The Commissar (1967)
(Komissar)
Country: USSR
Technical: bw/scope 108m
Director: Alexander Askoldov
Cast: Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov
Synopsis:
1920: a woman Commissar during the Civil War is billeted, pregnant, on a poor Jewish family.
Review:
Outspoken about anti-semitism, heavily symbolic in places, this long-banned film (for its implicit critique of Bolshevism) has some powerful 'dream' sequences from the heroine's perspective, and beautiful monochrome cinematography.
(Komissar)
Country: USSR
Technical: bw/scope 108m
Director: Alexander Askoldov
Cast: Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov
Synopsis:
1920: a woman Commissar during the Civil War is billeted, pregnant, on a poor Jewish family.
Review:
Outspoken about anti-semitism, heavily symbolic in places, this long-banned film (for its implicit critique of Bolshevism) has some powerful 'dream' sequences from the heroine's perspective, and beautiful monochrome cinematography.
(Komissar)
Country: USSR
Technical: bw/scope 108m
Director: Alexander Askoldov
Cast: Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov
Synopsis:
1920: a woman Commissar during the Civil War is billeted, pregnant, on a poor Jewish family.
Review:
Outspoken about anti-semitism, heavily symbolic in places, this long-banned film (for its implicit critique of Bolshevism) has some powerful 'dream' sequences from the heroine's perspective, and beautiful monochrome cinematography.