Sergei Eisenstein's 'Odessa Steps' sequence really shocked me. Certainly, it is a really impressive, cruel and realistic portrait of the Russian Revolution. The montage used in the film truly helps to transmit us the awful feelings of war; I think it really succeeds to capture human's inhumanity. 'Odessa Steps' is a very energetic and emotive sequence I think everyone should be able to watch at least once in their life time.
Alexander Dovzhenko is indeed more lyrical. His use of, for example, some shots of beautiful horses running or some tasty fruits growing in a tree, it's really poetic, and it somehow helps the film to be emotional but no in a disturbing way (like Eisenstein's films). It seems that Dovzhenko's films have some really deep content that would be really interesting to take a complete look at.
Dziga Vertov's 'Man with a Movie Camera' is a remarkable composition that, in one way or another, looks more modern than both Eisenstein's and Dovzhenko's films. Even though, 'Man with a Movie Camera' has no plot, it still is really energetic and entertaining.
It seems like war is a huge topic on Eastern Europe art. I saw a much more later Polish film 'Kanal' about the Warsaw Uprising and the escape through the sewers to avoid the Nazis... Eastern Europe is certainly an injured zone, and one can easily tell that just by taking a look at their art.
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