NIGHT MOVIE. UNUSUAL ADVENTURES OF MR. MESTER WEST IN THE Bolshevik Country

August 27, 18.00

an eccentric comedy directed by Lev Kuleshov, shot according to the original script by Nikolai Aseev in 1924, The film is dumb and black and white

The script was written by the poet N. Aseev. The film was conceived as a double pamphlet: on the deceitful bourgeois press and the American inhabitants who believed it, and at the same time on the most widespread genre of foreign bourgeois cinema of that time - “film detective”.

This is the first fiction film in which it is not by chance and sporadically, but fundamentally and consistently applied all the main specifically cinematic means of expression: shooting using a variety of plans and angles, breaking scenes into short editing pieces, careful compositional construction of each frame, taking into account the speed of the viewer’s reaction. The game of young actors captivated by the clarity and refinement of each movement, especially in stunt scenes, boxing scenes, in all episodes that required good physical preparation.

“The technical experiments were a success. The chase is done beyond praise. Fights look very realistic and somewhat reminiscent of fights in American cinema, without falling down to throwing cakes… A film about Mr. West is a certain stage in Soviet cinema. To master art, new forms that others have discovered, while bringing something of their own, is simply necessary. And Russian cinema absorbed the best that later allowed creating such masterpieces as “Battleship Potemkin” by Sergey Eisenstein, “Shchors” and “Earth” by Alexander Dovzhenko, “Dzigi Vertov’s Symphony of Donbass…”

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