The Iron Heel (1919)
- Original title
- Железная пята
- Directed by
- Yevgeni Ivanov-Barkov, Olga Preobrazhenskaya, Vladimir Gardin, Leonid Leonidov
- Genre
- drama film, silent film, dystopian film
- Country
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 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.
How it feels
A silent film based on Jack London's novel. It shows a future where capitalist oligarchs violently crush a socialist uprising in the United States. The story reflects the political struggles in Russia after the October Revolution.
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What happens
The Iron Heel (Russian: Железная пята, romanized: Zheleznaya pyata) is a 1919 Soviet silent film directed by Vladimir Gardin. It is based on Jack London's 1908 novel The Iron Heel. The main theme of London's book was the rise of a mass Socialist movement in the United States, with the potential to take power and implement a radical Socialist program, and its suppression by a well-organized coup of conservative Oligarchs. This had direct relevance to the situation in Russia at the time when the film was made, when the Russian Civil War was still raging and the newly created Soviet regime, born of the October Revolution, was still threatened by the counter-revolutionary White armies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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