"subtitles by" "BEZHIN MEADOW Sequences from an Unfinished Film" "Sergei Eisenstein's film "Que Viva Mexico" was taken from him before he could comlete it." "in 1932 he returned frustrated to the Soviet Union" "Three years past before he begin his first sound film "Bezhin Meadow"." "It was inspired by a story of Turgenief, and was to be about to young pioneers and their contribution to Soviet collective farming." "Eisentein worked nearly two years to make this film." "As it progressed became more and more poetic, it's stile became more complex, its experiments more daring." "Eisentein broke from the original concept of collectivization to make a sembolic struggle between a boy of the new Russia and his evil father of the old." "Production was halted and Eisenstein was attacted for producing a film of harmful formalistic exercises." ""Bezhin Meadov" was banned in March of 1937." "Later the only coppies of the film was distroyed when a bomb hit the Mosfilm Studios during the second world war." "This is an attempt to reproduce Eisenstein's lost film on the base of old sketches, clippings, and single frames of the negative which Eisentein had saved from his placing bench." "Stepok is escorting the body of his mother; whom his father has beat to death." ""Why did your father always beat her so much?"" ""Because she understood me."" "Stepok's father is drinking with his friends." ""My own son has betrayed me, his father..."" ""We thought you were asleep, but you were listening to us..."" ""and then went and reported all we said."" ""When the Lord God created the heaven, the waters and the earth..."" ""and people like me and you, son, he said:"" ""If a son betrays his father..."" ""kill him!"" ""You wanted to burn the grain, to ruin the kolkhoz?"" ""I didn't set fire to it..." "I'm a poor man."" ""And what am I, of the royal family?"" "The kolkhoz chairman comes for Stepok's baby sister." ""But it's my child."" ""We'll ask her about that."" ""Farewell, son." "Maybe we'll yet meet again."" "The kulaks set fire to the shed where gasoline is kept." ""There are pigeons there!"" "The incendairies have taken refuge in the church, while the collective farmers surround it." ""What have God-fearing people come to, Oh, Lord!"" "No God-fearing people left." "The incendiaries, under convoy, reach the highway." ""They're the Last!" "They ought to be shown in a museum."" ""They would like to bring the tsar back."" ""They say tha tsar has been brought back."" "It is decided to turn the church where the incendiaries hid into a clubhouse." ""Let me have this little icon as a momento..."" ""I can't."" ""Refuse me even a piece of junk..."" "By nights the boys herd the horses... and guard the collective farm grain." "The incendiaries have killed their guards and escaped." "Stepok's father has also escaped." ""When the Lord God created the heaven, the waters and the earth..."" ""and people like me and you, son, he said:"" ""If a son betrays his father..."" ""kill him!"" ""Father..."" "The boys have brought a doctor to Stepok, who is dying."