Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Shoemakers, defenders, communists

Outskirts (1933)

Directed by Boris Barnet this film stars Sergey Komarov, Elena Kuzmina, Robert Erdmann and Alexnader Chistyakov. We follow the people of a small town in tsarist Russia through WW1.

Like many a film from Russia in this period there is more than a hint of communist propaganda about this film as strikers put a side their concerns and enlist to save the motherland. The plot is pretty simple and does not have a ton to it other than suggesting workers of the world should unite. There are some hints of the soviet montage style in some of the editing but this is a much more standard film in it's execution.


3/5

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