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The New Babylon is a russe film of genre Drama directed by Grigori Kozintsev with Elena Kouzmina

The New Babylon (1929)

Новый Вавилон

The New Babylon
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Length 1h33
OriginRussie
Genres Drama,    War,    Historical
Rating71% 3.57973.57973.57973.57973.5797

The New Babylon (Russian: Новый Вавилон; translit. Novyy Vavilon; alt. title: Штурм неба; translit. Shturm neba) is a 1929 silent film written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. The film deals with the 1871 Paris Commune and the events leading to it, and follows the encounter and tragic fate of two lovers separated by the barricades of the Commune.

Composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his first film score for this movie. In the fifth reel of the score he quotes the revolutionary anthem, "La Marseillaise" (representing the Commune), juxtaposed contrapuntally with the famous "Can-can" from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.

Footage from The New Babylon was included in Guy Debord's feature film The Society of the Spectacle (1973).

Synopsis

Au début de la révolution industrielle, en 1871, alors que la Commune de Paris est violemment réprimée par l'armée, se tisse une histoire d'amour entre Jean, un soldat, et Louise, jeune vendeuse communarde du grand-magasin La Nouvelle Babylone. L'aventure se terminera dans le sang et les larmes, sous la pluie qui lave tous les souvenirs du passé.

Actors

Elena Kouzmina

(Louise Poirier, l'aidante du magasin)Pyotr Sobolevsky

(Jean, the soldier)Sergueï Guerassimov

(Lutro, the journalist)Vsevolod Poudovkine

(Police intendent)Andrei Kostrichkin

(The main shop-assistant)
And :
Ianina Boleslavovna Jeïmo
Tamara Makarova
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