The Commissar
- heavy
- measured
- intense
Heavy, measured, measured drama / war, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
Our read · The Commissar (1967) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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