| Product Summary | | Publisher: Image | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00014381140224 | | Buy.com Sku: 40215394 | | Item#: VCV7GW | | Category Keywords: Politics Silent Vintage | | Rating: NR |
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A film by Alexander Dovzhenko
Features: DVD, Dolby, Mono Audio
Dovzhenko's Arsenal represents the avant-garde masterpiece of the renowned Ukrainian director. Dovzhenko employs the most elliptical and complex montage style of any of the Soviet masters in this treatment of events from the Ukrainian Civil War. Based on an actual incident from 1918, the film's story concerns a group of Ukrainian Bolsheviks who battle against counter-revolutionary nationalist troops in Kiev. The Bolsheviks put up an Alamo-like defense of their cause inside the city's Arsenal munitions plant. Outnumbered by the nationalist troops, the defenders are overrun and defeated in the climactic battle, but their revolutionary spirit prevails. The story outline can only suggest the formal complexity of this film. Dovzhenko mixes elements from traditional Ukrainian folklore with modernist film techniques in a dazzling collage.
Editor's Note
Based around an actual event that occurred in the Ukranian Civil War, ARSENAL is an important addition to the complex, montage-based works of director Alexander Dovzhenko. An outnumbered group of Bolsheviks defend their besieged city from invading nationalist troops; Hiding out in the city's munitions plant (The "Arsenal" to which the title refers), the battle rages to an intense conclusion, with all of Dovzhenko's dizzying skills as a director employed to stunning effect.
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Features | Interactive Menus | | Optional Audio Commentary By Film Historian Vance Kepley, Jr., University Of Wisconsin Professor And Author Of "In The Service Of The State: The Cinema Of Alexander Dovzhenko" | | Audio: English Dolby Surround | | Scene Access |
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Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Image |
| Release Date: 2/11/2003 |
| Original Release Date: 1929 | | Catalog ID: 1402-DSDVD | | UPC: 00014381140224 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Russian | | Available Audio Tracks: Russian | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3 |
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