1927 · documentary · historical · silent
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Directed by Esfir Shub1h 27m1927
A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.
Our read: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded documentary · historical · silent entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured documentary / historical, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- cold
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