Shchors
- brisk
- intense
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / war, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Cheered up by the revolutionary zeal, courage and energy of their leader, Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors, in 1919 the peasants and workers' groups gathered in the civil war- devastated Ukraine, to defeat the foreign conquerors and enemies of the revolution. However, it does not take long until a new danger threatens: this time the Polish Pans enter Ukraine, and General Dragomirov marches to Kiev. Shchors, however, gathers the revolutionary forces of the country and brings them to a victorious counter-attack.
Our read · Shchors (1939) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · war · historical entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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