Arsenal (film)

Infobox_Film
name = Арсенал (Arsenal)


caption = Film poster
director = Alexander Dovzhenko
producer = Alexander Dovzhenko
writer = Alexander Dovzhenko
starring = Semyon Svashenko
Mykola Nademsky
Amvroziy Buchma
Les Podorozhnij
music = Igor Belza
cinematography = Danylo Demutsky
editing =
distributor = VUFKU-Odessa
released = 1928 (Soviet Union)
country = Soviet Union
runtime = 92 min.
language = Silent film
Russian intertitles
budget =
imdb_id = 0019649 |

"Arsenal" (Russian and _uk. Арсенал), (1928), is a Soviet film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko. Regarded by film scholar Vance Kepley, Jr. as "one of the few Soviet political films which seems even to cast doubt on the morality of violent retribution." This second film in Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy" (along with "Zvenigora" and "Earth (1930 film), which are widely considered three of the greatest movies ever made.
Earth") was originally commissioned as a feature that would glorify the battle in 1918 between Bolshevik workers at a Kiev munitions plant and White Russian troops. Dovzhenko's eye for wartime absurdities (for example, an attack on an empty trench) anticipates later pacifist sentiments in films by Jean Renoir and Stanley Kubrick.

External links

*Ray Uzwyshyn's Silent Trilogy Study [http://members.aol.com/vladytwo/Dissertation.html See Part III: Arsenal]