The New Babylon
Новый Вавилон
1929 · 92 min · SU
Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, Sovkino / FEKS, 1929. The Paris Commune of 1871 through a shopgirl, Louise, at the New Babylon department store, and a soldier she loves who will be told to shoot. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote the score, his first for film, and the accompaniment fought the picture in some houses. Gosfilmofond restorations put music and image back together. FEKS eccentricity applied to a massacre. The store windows keep selling while the street goes down.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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Grigori Kozintsev
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Andrey Moskvin
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Leonid Trauberg
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