Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film (1968)

Plot Summary

Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. Assigned to Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, the filming followed the same path as with his previous effort, "Que Viva Mexico", into cost overrun and over-shooting of footage. Furthermore, Eisenstein's usage of forbidden experimental film techniques outraged his government superiors, who ordered the film destroyed before it was even completed. All that survives are the first and last frames of each shot, preserved by Sergei Eisenstein’s wife, Pera Atasheva. The 1967 reconstruction, by Naum Kleiman of the Eisenstein Museum and Sergei Yutkevich of Gosfilmofond, places these frames in order, approximating the original film.

Full Cast & Characters

Viktor Kartashov

Степок

Boris Zakhava

Samokhin, Stepok's Father

Pyotr Arzhanov

Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)

Yekaterina Teleshova

President of Kolkhoz

Nikolai Maslov

Arsonist

Nikolai Khmelyov

Peasant

Stanislav Rostotsky

Boy

Yakov Zajtsev

Evgenia Bagorskaya

Vasiliy Savitskiy

Bearded man

Director & Crew

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