A man is caught between his friendship with a young engineer wishing to open his peat-powered electric plant and his love for a young woman, whose father owns an oil company.
Editing
Kuleshov basically invented modern film grammar here.
Direction
Thirty-one minutes, zero fat, pure cinematic theory.
Production
Peat-powered electric plant as set piece = peak 1918.
Director
Lev Kuleshov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Russian Civil War with frozen film stock and stolen electricity — Kuleshov was basically building cinema from scraps while bullets flew.
This is ground zero for Soviet Montage theory; Kuleshov proved editing creates meaning independent of the shots themselves, changing how every film after would be constructed.
RU
