Monday 21 January 2019

For peats sake


Engineer Prite's Project (1918)

Directed by Lev Kuleshov this film stars N. Gardy, Yelena Komarova and Boris Kuleshov. Big oil is not happy about the prospect of a rival by way of burning peat for energy.

Notable for being the first application of Kuleshov's montage theory which would become a corner stone for early Soviet cinema this film is not overly impressive. The plot is pretty dry and simplistic which does not really get the viewer emotionally involved. Decently made for a piece of the period but only one for film historians in my opinion.

3/5

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