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and sneaks out in the night to inform on him; in others, the local Communist Party functionary breastfeeds Stepok's young sister; in still others, Stepok's father says after shooting his son, "They took you from me, but I did not give you to them. I did not give my own flesh and blood." After Stepok's death, the same aforementioned Communist official carries him off, joined by other children, in a funeral march that was said to evolve into a victory march.
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crops. Samokhin grows progressively more frustrated by his son's actions and success. Eventually, Stepok reports Samokhin's crimes to the Soviet government authorities, and is in turn slain by his own father for betraying his family. The other Young Pioneers break into the local church, singing songs, and
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history were that Pavlik Morozov may not have even been a member of the Young Pioneers. Morozov had been called a "disturbed young boy" who was unaware of the consequences of what he was doing and turned his father in to the authorities for having abandoned his mother for a younger woman, rather than
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In some versions, the destruction of the church was replaced with a scene of villagers fighting the arsonist's fire. In the film, the fire was started when the arsonists threw dried sunflowers and lit matches into the community's fuel storage area. In some cuts, Stepok overhears his father's planning
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Herbert Marshall argued that by 1931, government interference in Soviet artistic work was already well established, in various forms: from peers of the artists, guided by 'above'; from "the different circles competent to judge it"; and ultimately from the Communist Party and Stalin himself. This all
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where the villagers desecrate the village church in response to Stepok's death, which was removed in later versions of the film, has been called "one of the great set-pieces in cinema", and a further demonstration of the Biblical imagery featured in the film. Among such visuals from the desecration
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village, who is a member of the local Young Pioneers Communist organization, as are other local children. His father Samokhin, a farmer, plans to sabotage the village harvest for political reasons by burning down the titular meadow, but Stepok organizes the other Young Pioneer children to guard the
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felt that Eisenstein did not want to be a "Soviet person", giving this as a reason for the failure of the film. David Maryan, another director, blamed Eisenstein for looking down on others, taking no pleasure in the achievements of others, and for being a loner. Eisenstein's political status came
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was overtly negative, however. In the years after the film closed its production, studios and film organizations in major Russian cities including Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev held seminars to examine the lessons of the film, with some of the sessions lasting days. A former student of Eisenstein,
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only because it offered him an opportunity to indulge in formalistic exercises. Instead of creating a strong, clear, direct work, Eisenstein detached his work from reality, from the colors and heroism of reality. He consciously reduced the work's ideological content." Shumyatsky would lose his
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in my outlook and creative method". Eisenstein finally wrote, "What caused catastrophe to overtake the picture I had worked on for two years? What was the mistaken viewpoint which, despite honesty of feelings and devotion to work, brought the production to a perversion of reality, making it
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with Turgenev's name on it. It is next revealed that Stepok's mother has been beaten to death by his father. In a dark hut, Samokhin complains that his son has a greater loyalty to the Soviet than his own family, as Stepok enters from the bright day outside. His father quotes from the
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came to an end. The unfinished and unreleased film reels were destroyed during a World War II bombing raid in 1941. In a later published response to Shumyatsky titled "The Mistakes of Bezhin Meadow", Eisenstein pledged he would "rid myself of the last anarchistic traits of
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it in response to Stepok's death. The visuals of the film shift during the destruction of the church, with the villagers becoming that which they are destroying—the angry villagers, by the end of the set piece, are depicted as Christ-like, angelic, and prophetic figures.
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with the struggle between good and evil". By an order from the Chief Directorate of Soviet Cinema, production of the film was stopped permanently on March 17, 1937. Shumyatsky complained that Eisenstein had presented the conflicts of the film in somewhat
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following his death in 1932, after he supposedly denounced his father to Soviet government authorities and subsequently died at the hands of his family. Pavlik Morozov was immortalized in school programs, poetry, music, and film.
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youth group, the film's production ran from 1935 to 1937, until it was halted by the central Soviet government, which said it contained artistic, social, and political failures. Some, however, blamed the failure of
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under attack as well due to the film. G. Zeldovich, of the Principal Directorate for the Cinema, questioned whether Eisenstein should be free to work with film students due to his political unreliability.
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was well received by Eisenstein, but there were initial concerns about the quality of the plot and characterization involved. The commission for the production was issued by the Communist Youth League, or
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was that Eisenstein was wasting money and resources in producing it; conversely, before his execution, Shumyatsky himself was charged with wasting money and resources by cancelling films such as
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before its release. Multiple versions of the film were banned by the committee, which cited them as "inartistic and politically bankrupt", and claimed that Eisenstein "confused the
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work, and was to focus on "the socialist reconstruction of the countryside". Filming began in the middle of 1935, and in October 1935 the first developed film was presented to the
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for its historical nature, the odd circumstances of its production and failure, and its imagery, which is considered some of the greatest in cinema. In spite of the failure of
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government position two years later, when he was charged with being an English spy, arrested, and shot. One of the reasons Shumyatsky gave for shutting down production of
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and the symbolic struggle between good and evil. Additionally, Birgit Beumers writes, "The peasants here are grey-bearded prophets; the young men are broad-shouldered
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was long thought lost in the wake of World War II bombings. In the 1960s, however, cuttings and partial prints of the film were found; from these, a reconstruction of
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Beumers, Birgit (ed.). Russia on reels: the Russian idea in post-Soviet cinema. Kino: the Russian cinema series. London and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1999.
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himself. In the wake of the film's failure, Eisenstein publicly recanted his work as an error. Individuals were arrested during and after the ensuing debacle.
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After the film's final rejection, Shumyatsky took responsibility for the failure in the Soviet media, with an essay detailing the film's history in
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was never completed, and a full version was never distributed, the film was later considered a celebration of Soviet political purposes and
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was repeatedly edited, re-shot, and changed to satisfy the Soviet government authorities, several versions of the film were created.
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has had a rich legacy of responses and criticism since its original production. In the wake of Shumyatsky's statements in
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Following the order to stop production of the film from the Soviet government and Shumyatsky, Eisenstein contracted
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were also created from the script, and a new spoken introduction was added. The film now exists as a 35-minute "
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class struggle. Eisenstein himself would later say that the murder of Stepok by his father was "reminiscent of
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propaganda film, famous for having been suppressed and believed destroyed before its completion. Directed by
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as a martyr. Turgenev's original short fiction titled "Bezhin Meadow" or "Bezhin Lea" was a story about
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In the 1960s, it was learned that Eisenstein's wife, Pera Attasheva, had saved splices of film from the
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The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History)
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signs of death, while they spend the night in the Bezhin Meadow with a lost hunter. It is a part of
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The Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party required that it screen and approve
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A later re-editing of the film opens with images of orchards and blue sky, showing a stone
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The Morozov story was developed into compulsory children's readings, songs, plays, a
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forging documents and selling them to the bandits and enemies of the Soviet State
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The most sourced and best-known version focuses on Stepok, a young boy in a
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Eisenstein Rediscovered: Soviet Cinema of the '20s and '30s (Soviet Cinema)
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is the one that may be most cited in academic works related to film study.
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The film, as mentioned by Shumyatsky and Eisenstein, is rich in religious
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was also said to be part of an ongoing campaign against the artistic
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The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents, 1896-1939
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that needed to be eliminated. Shumyatsky went on to say, " making
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on government interference and policies, extending all the way to
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who led the Young Pioneers at his school, and supported Stalin's
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in the 1960s, even though the original prints were destroyed.
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to continue his career, and he created and released the film
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sequence were an image of a girl in a mirror, framed as the
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Masters of the Soviet Cinema: Crippled Creative Biographies
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Lavalley, Albert J.; Scherr, Barry P., eds. (2001-04-04).
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Peotr Pavlenko, defended Eisenstein's work in the wake of
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scholar and novelist, but was adapted to incorporate the
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politically insubstantial and consequently inartistic?"
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Shumyatsky, Boris (1994-12-13). "O fil'me Bezhin lug,
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The Mistakes of Bezhin Meadow: Sergei M. Eisenstein
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Index


Sergei Eisenstein
Ivan Turgenev
Nikolai Khmelyov
Erast Garin
Boris Zakhava
Gavriil Popov
Sergei Prokofiev
Mosfilm

Soviet
Sergei Eisenstein
Ivan Turgenev
Pavlik Morozov
martyr
communist
Joseph Stalin
religious symbolism
film industry
collective farming
desecrate
obelisk
Bible
iconography
Renaissance
Madonnas
iconostasis
Samson
A Hero of Our Time
Viktor Kartashov

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