Country:France, Russia

Director:Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov

Program:Parralel Pathways

Summary:

This is a complete anomaly in the catalogue of Soviet master Eisenstein who was the most visible practitioner of Soviet montage techniques around the world largely due to the success of his Battleship Potemkin. This is a work which is completely Russian in character but it was shot while Eisenstein and his cinematographer Edouard Tisse were in France. A woman alone in a huge well appointed house sits at her piano and rehearses a few Russian songs which prompt a torrent of parallel imagery concentrated in nature   which is spectacular to the point of jaw dropping.