Release Date

04 Mar, 1968

Runtime

00:31: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. Assigned to Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, the filming followed the same path as with his previous effort, "Que Viva Mexico", into cost overrun and over-shooting of footage. Furthermore, Eisenstein's usage of forbidden experimental film techniques outraged his government superiors, who ordered the film destroyed before it was even completed. All that survives are the first and last frames of each shot, preserved by Sergei Eisenstein’s wife, Pera Atasheva. The 1967 reconstruction, by Naum Kleiman of the Eisenstein Museum and Sergei Yutkevich of Gosfilmofond, places these frames in order, approximating the original film.

Original Title

Бежин луг

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Actors

Viktor Kartashov

Борис Захава

Петр Аржанов

Yekaterina Teleshova

Nikolai Maslov

Nikolai Khmelyov

Станислав Ростоцкий

Yakov Zajtsev

Crew

Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн

Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн

Isaak Babel

Иван Тургенев

Alexandr Rzheshevsky

Сергей Юткевич

Klavdia Aleyeve

Сергей Юткевич

Борис Вольский