又名：The New Babylon
The New Babylon is a metaphorical clash of glittering surfaces and deep social cynicism that marked the climax of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's experimentations with the conventions of the S
名称：新巴比伦 又名：The New Babylon 年代：1929 类型：剧情 / 历史 语言：俄语 国家：苏联 导演：格里高利·柯静采夫 / 列昂尼德·塔拉乌别尔格 编剧：格里高利·柯静采夫 / 列昂尼德·塔拉乌别尔格 演员：David Gutman / 叶莲娜·库兹敏娜 / 安德烈·科斯特里奇金 / 索菲娅·马加里尔 / A. Arnold / 谢尔盖·格拉西莫夫 / 叶夫根尼·切尔维亚科夫 / 彼得·索博列夫斯基 剧情：The New Babylon is a metaphorical clash of glittering surfaces and deep social cynicism that marked the climax of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's experimentations with the conventions of the Soviet silent cinema. Taking their thematic inspiration from the story of the Paris Commune of 1871, the two directors fashioned a highly conceptualized allegory of social strata under pressure that transcends its historical roots to form a sardonic comment on the human condition.
The music, by Dimitry Shostakovitch, is also integral to the film's narrative structure. Normally in film, the music serves to compliment or amplify the visual image. The relationship is one of conjunction. In The New Babylon, however, Shostakovitch creates a relationship through the opposition of sound and image. In the music hall scene, for example, the composer interfaces components of the "can-can" and the "Marseillaise" with the vulgar spectacle of the pageant to form a musical comment on the French middle class.
Although the avant-garde aspects of The New Babylon caused it to fall somewhat in disfavor during the regime of Josef Stalin, it is precisely those elements that cause it to remain of interest today. Although ranking somewhat below the pioneering efforts of Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin whose theories greatly influenced its creation, The New Babylon still represents an innovative use of the cinema and one of the highpoints of the Soviet silent cinema.
Title：Novyy Vavilon Year：1929 Genre：Drama / History Language：None / Russian Country：Soviet Union Director：Grigoriy Kozintsev / Leonid Trauberg Writer：Grigoriy Kozintsev / Leonid Trauberg Actors：David Gutman / Yelena Kuzmina / Andrei Kostrichkin Plot：In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the love story between a young sales girl and a soldier unable to decide if he was pro or against the radical fashion? Two short months were needed for the answer to be found - in blood and tears, and under rain that washes all past memories. Any day, a New Babylon shop will open with frilly things for the bourgeois girls. The washerwomen will be there to wash them.
