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新巴比伦
又名: The New Babylon
导演: 格里高利·柯静采夫/列昂尼德·塔拉乌别尔格
编剧: 格里高利·柯静采夫/列昂尼德·塔拉乌别尔格
主演: David Gutman/叶莲娜·库兹敏娜/Andrei Kostrichkin/Sofiya Magarill/A. Arnold/谢尔盖·格拉西莫夫/Yevgeni Chervyakov/Pyotr Sobolevsky
类型: 剧情/历史
制片国家/地区: 苏联
语言: 俄语
上映日期: 1929-03-18
片长: 120 分钟/93 分钟(2004th restored Version)/West Germany: 75 分钟(TV premiere)
IMDb链接: tt0020230
剧情简介
The New Babylon is a metaphorical clash of glittering surfaces and deep social cynicism that marked the climax of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's experimentations with the conventions of the Soviet silent cinema. Taking their thematic inspiration from the story of the Paris Commune of 1871, the two directors fashioned a highly conceptualized allegory of social strata under pressure that transcends its historical roots to form a sardonic comment on the human condition.
The music, by Dimitry Shostakovitch, is also integral to the film's narrative structure. Normally in film, the music serves to compliment or amplify the visual image. The relationship is one of conjunction. In The New Babylon, however, Shostakovitch creates a relationship through the opposition of sound and image. In the music hall scene, for example, the composer interfaces components of the "can-can" and the "Marseillaise" with the vulgar spectacle of the pageant to form a musical comment on the French middle class.
Although the avant-garde aspects of The New Babylon caused it to fall somewhat in disfavor during the regime of Josef Stalin, it is precisely those elements that cause it to remain of interest today. Although ranking somewhat below the pioneering efforts of Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin whose theories greatly influenced its creation, The New Babylon still represents an innovative use of the cinema and one of the highpoints of the Soviet silent cinema.
