Aerograd
- brisk
- intense
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government. Work on the new outpost is complicated when tensions develop between workers and a religious sect. Relations between the two countries are further strained in the days before World War II, dating back to the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
Our read · Aerograd (1935) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Aerograd
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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