Fresh
It's a bucolic epic about the Soviet struggle to collectivize agricultural production, and it's far from his least interesting or exciting film.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Overview
100.000.000 peasants – illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live the old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress, she changes the lives and labours of her village.
Director and cast
- Sergei Eisenstein Director
- Marfa Lapkina as Marfa
- M. Ivanin as Marfa's son
- Konstantin Vasilyev as Tractor Driver
- Vasili Buzenkov as Secretary of the milk cooperative
- Nezhnikov as Miroshkin - Schoolmaster
- Chukamaryev as The butcher
- Ivan Yudin as Komsomolets
- E. Suhareva as Witch
- G. Matvei as Priest
- Lev Ivanov Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
Eisenstein was condemned as a 'formalist'; and began the world travels that eventually led him to Mexico.
Time Out
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