Steppe Dawns (1953)

Original title

Степные зори

Directed by

Lev Saakov

Genre

drama film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 01m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Soviet drama set in rural steppe lands. It follows characters in a collective farm community, dealing with personal and social conflicts in a changing political climate.

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What happens

Steppe Dawns (Russian: Степные зори, romanized: Stepnye zori) is a 1953 Soviet drama film directed by Lev Saakov based on the eponymous novel by Boris Bedny. The film received a permit dated March 25, 1953 for the all-Union hire except Moscow, Leningrad and the capitals of the republics of the Soviet Union, but then the Ministry of culture of the USSR imposed a complete ban on the production of the film "because of the extremely low ideological and artistic level." According to film critics Evgeny Margolit and Vyacheslav Shmyrov: "the film made by all the canons of the conflict-free theory and good fight with the best principle has lost all relevance in the new political environment". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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