Arsenal (1929)

19291h 28mdir. Oleksandr DovzhenkoEnglish subtitlesSoviet Unionsilent filmwar film

With Semen Svashenko

Directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko

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Arsenal (Russian: Арсенал; Ukrainian: Арсенал; alternate title: January Uprising in Kiev in 1918) is a 1929 silent Soviet drama film by Alexander Dovzhenko. The film depicts events following the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and the subsequent Russian Civil War, and is a highly symbolic and poetic portrayal of the revolutionary spirit and the struggle for power. The film was shot at Odessa Film Factory of VUFKU by cameraman Danyl Demutskyi and used original sets made by Volodymyr Muller. The expressionist imagery, camera work and original drama were said to take the film far beyond the usual propaganda and made it one of the most important pieces of Ukrainian avant-garde cinema. The fil

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