1938 · drama · political
The Great Citizen
Directed by Fridrikh Ermler4h 12m1938
A biography drama about Sergey Kirov, a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union.
Our read: The Great Citizen (1938) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / political, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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