The New Babylon (1929) movie

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.
The New Babylon (1929) movie
Genres: Drama, History
Production Co.: Sovkino
Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Writing Credits: Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Music by Dmitri Shostakovich
Cinematography by Andrei Moskvin
Cast:
David Gutman as Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop
Yelena Kuzmina as Louise Poirier, the shop-assistant
Andrei Kostrichkin as The main shop-assistant
Sofiya Magarill as An actress
Arnold Arnold as Commune's Central Committee member
Sergey Gerasimov as Lutro, the journalist
Yevgeni Chervyakov as National Guard's officer
Pyotr Sobolevsky as Jean, the soldier
Yanina Zhejmo as Therese, a seamstress
Oleg Zhakov as National Guard's soldier
Vsevolod Pudovkin as Police intendent
Lyudmila Semyonova as Can-can dancer
A. Glushkova as Washerwoman
Emil Gal as Bourgeois
S. Gusev as Poirier, an old man
Tamara Makarova as Can-can dancer
Aleksandr Orlov as King Menelay in the play
Natalya Rashevskaya as Washerwoman
Roman Rubinshtein as Singer in the play
Anna Zarzhitskaya as Young girl on the barricades
Boris Azarov as National Guard's soldier

[@CharlesDickens99]

Is this music by Shostakovitch?

[@werrmo4658]

yes

[@tubamirum007]

Shostakovich wrote the music for many films during this time...and was very well known as a composer, not only inside but in the “west” as well...

[@InalmadaDada]

Yes : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Babylon

[@halored5621]

The most notable characteristic of this film is the score by Shostakovitch. Frankly, he had somewhat of a material motivation for composing for cinema during that time (he needed money) but the influences and general ethos of the Soviet film scene stretch into his entire early body of work (e.g. Symphonie No. 1 - 4 or his Jazz Suite). Great stuff!!

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1:14 - John McAfee cameo.

[@adrianhdragon718]

;0) How so ???

[@MultiFilmci]

Habe you tamilla?

[@samaeltheangelofdeath]

Abomination!

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