Cain and Artem (1930)

Name: Cain and Artem
Genre: Drama
Released: 2020-06-29
Duration: 1 hr 25 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Emil Gal, Nikolai Simonov, Yelena Yegorova, Georgiy Uvarov, Iona Biy-Brodskiy

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NR 1 hr 25 minJun 6th, 1930Drama

Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet Filmmaking,” in which he criticized all the achievements of the Soviet avant-garde. In spite of his beliefs and his scandalous struggle with “bourgeois” and “formalist” filmmaking, Petrov-Bytov directed an aesthetically refined work, shot entirely on set with masterful chiaroscuro lighting: a perfect example of “Soviet expressionism.” Based on a Maxim Gorky story, the plot of Cain and Artem provides a wake-up call to the Russian people to overcome alcoholism and religious factionalism, as it spotlights the (many) drunken denizens of a typical village and their disregard for the Jewish shoemaker Cain.

StarringEmil GalNikolai SimonovYelena Yegorova

DirectorPavel Petrov-Bytov

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