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Alexander Dovzhenko, the great sensualist of Soviet cinema, directed this 1943 documentary about Ukraine during World War II. Its images of rural landscape before the Germans invaded are intensely lyrical, and throughout the film Dovzhenko cuts between shots that move in contrasting directions, beautifully dynamizing each. Searing footage, some of it from captured German newsreels, shows the smoldering ruins of both city and country, and Ukrainian witnesses describe the enemy's brutality. The film is marred by the propagandistic narration, hailing Stalin and characterizing the invaders as “miserable fascist dogs”; the extent of Stalin's role in starting the war wouldn't be revealed for decades. In Russian with subtitles. 80 min.
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