The New Babylon (1929)

19291h 33mdir. Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid TraubergRussianSoviet Unionsilent filmhistorical film

With Yelena Kuzmina, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Sergei Gerasimov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Sofia Magarill, Andrei Kostrichkin, David Gutman, Yevgeni Chervyakov

Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg

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The New Babylon (Russian: Новый Вавилон, romanized: Novyy Vavilon alt. title: Russian: Штурм неба, romanized: Shturm neba) is a 1929 silent historical drama film written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. The film deals with the 1871 Paris Commune and the events leading to it, and follows the encounter and tragic fate of two lovers separated by the barricades of the Commune.

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