Ivan (1932)

Original title

Іван

Directed by

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Genre

drama film, propaganda film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A young peasant named Ivan struggles to adapt as his rural community faces the advance of industrialization. The film shows the tension between old ways and new machinery.

poeticslow-burnmelancholiccontemplativeearthystoicatmosphericrhythmicaustere

What happens

Ivan (Ukrainian: «Iвaн», Russian: «Иван») is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Dovzhenko. After the critical lambasting of his film Earth by the Soviet authorities, Dovzhenko returned with a more popular iteration of its main motifs. Much like Earth, Ivan concerns itself with the natural rhythms of country life, disrupted by the beat of looming industrialisation. Aleksandr Dovzhenko received a Special Jury Prize for the film at the 2nd Venice International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.