Evgenia Bagorskaya

Korkunç İvan, sinemanın büyük ustası Eisenstein'ın her zaman değerini sürdüren, en son ve en anıtsal yapıtıdır. Eisenstein bu filminde, bütün sanatların öğelerini toplamış, bunları birbirleriyle kaynaştırarak, sinemayı bütün sanatların bileşkesini sağlayan bir araç durumuna getirmeyi amaçlamıştır. Korkunç İvan'da, bir devlet kurucusunun her alanda verdiği savaşımı anlatılmaktadır. Devlet kurma uğruna yüksek bedeller ödemekten çekinmeyen olağanüstü bir kişiliktir, İvan. Devleti soyup talan eden, parmağında oynatan, iktidarı vermek istemeyen ve kukla bir çara razı olan boyarlarla savaşım; dış düşmanlar ve işbirlikçileriyle savaşım; ülkeyi soylularla birlikte soyan ve yönetmek isteyen kiliseyle savaşım; bunun sonucunda da böylesine ağır bir yükün altında ezilen İvan'ın bizzat kendisiyle savaşımı, bu yapıtta bir ruhbilim incelemesine dönüşmektedir.

A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government. Work on the new outpost is complicated when tensions develop between workers and a religious sect. Relations between the two countries are further strained in the days before World War II, dating back to the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.

Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. Assigned to Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, the filming followed the same path as with his previous effort, "Que Viva Mexico", into cost overrun and over-shooting of footage. Furthermore, Eisenstein's usage of forbidden experimental film techniques outraged his government superiors, who ordered the film destroyed before it was even completed. All that survives are the first and last frames of each shot, preserved by Sergei Eisenstein’s wife, Pera Atasheva. The 1967 reconstruction, by Naum Kleiman of the Eisenstein Museum and Sergei Yutkevich of Gosfilmofond, places these frames in order, approximating the original film.

A mysterious castle has stood on the island for 300 years, about which there are many legends and rumors. In reality, the castle is home to a boarding school, but local residents are sure that the ghost of the Green Hunter lives there. The boys also think they hear footsteps at night. And they were not mistaken - their search for adventure leads them to the sinister secrets of people who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.