Blog Task 4 – Classic Soviet Constructivist Film

Name at least 3 other films identified by critics as classic constructivist films.

The Diplomatic Pouch (1927)

The Diplomatic Pouch is a 1927 Soviet silent thriller film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The first two parts of the film are lost

Mother, (1926), Vsevolod Pudovkin

Pelageya can’t undertand why her son is organizing a workers’ strike, while her boorish husband is trying to suppress it. When the latter is killed, Pelageya unwittingly gives up her son to the authorities, and isĀ horrified when he is sent to jail. Gradually, as she begins to understand her son’s ideological position, she commits herself to the revolutionary cause and fights to free her son.

The End of St Petersburg-Vsevolod Pudovkin (1927)

A Russian peasant unwittingly becomes a scab, putting him at odds with a relative leading the strike.

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