1924 · comedy · silent · satire
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
Directed by Lev Kuleshov1h 17m1924
An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his bodyguard.
Our read: The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · silent · satire entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / silent, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
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- funny
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