A fresh, startling anti-war film. Set in southern Russia during the civil war, we are presented with scene after scene of soldiers and irregulars coming into camera range, committing different atrocities and then, in their turn, being victimized by some other group who shows up. This doesn't allow us to care about any of these people but very effectively demonstrates the stupidity, the pointlessness, the arbitrariness of war.
This guy was an international treasure. This early work stands out from its contemporaries in a striking way.
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