Above the Law

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Country:Russia

Director:Lev Kuleshov

Program:Multiplying Parallels

Year: 
1926

Summary:

Incredibly, Kuleshov restricts himself to the parallel lives of individuals in a single cramped room as the montage graphically isolates each one. Set in a remote, frozen, and often claustrophobic location in the Yukon, the story focuses on a five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon who have just begun to enjoy great success when one of the members snaps, and suddenly kills two of the others. The two survivors, a husband and wife, subdue the killer but are then faced with an agonizing dilemma. With no chance of turning him over to the authorities for many weeks, they must decide whether to exact justice themselves or to risk trying to keep him restrained until they return to civilization.