1929 · drama · silent · historical
The New Babylon
Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg1h 32m1929
In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.
Our read: The New Babylon (1929) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · silent · historical entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / silent, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- signature
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