Cain and Artem
Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet Filmmaking,” in which he criticized all the achievements of the Soviet avant-garde. In spite of his beliefs and his scandalous struggle with “bourgeois” and “formalist” filmmaking, Petrov-Bytov directed an aesthetically refined work, shot entirely on set with masterful chiaroscuro lighting: a perfect example of “Soviet expressionism.” Based on a Maxim Gorky story, the plot of Cain and Artem provides a wake-up call to the Russian people to overcome alcoholism and religious factionalism, as it spotlights the (many) drunken denizens of a typical village and their disregard for the Jewish shoemaker Cain.
Year: 1930
Genre: Drama
Studio: Sovkino
Director: Pavel Petrov-Bytov
Cast: Emil Gal, Nikolai Simonov, Yelena Yegorova, Georgiy Uvarov
Crew: Pavel Petrov-Bytov (Director), Nikolai Ushakov (Director of Photography), Pavel Petrov-Bytov (Screenplay), Maxim Gorky (Short Story), Isaak Makhlis (Production Design)
Runtime: 85 minutes
Release: Jun 06, 1930
IMDb: 7.00/10 by 2 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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