Outskirts Boris Barnet Russian 1933 DVDRip torrent

Outskirts/Okraina
Russian: Окраина
English: The Outskirts, aka The Patriots

Director Boris Barnet

Cast:
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Sergei Komarov
Yelena Kuzmina
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Nikolai Kryuchkov
Hans Klering

Year: 1933

Language: Russian
Subtitles: English


The remarkable qualities of this early sound film pertain to it's stunning use of sound which is inventive and innovative by any and all standards, the stunning camera movements and long takes. Just as remarkable is the storytelling which plays like a series of short stories and sketches rather than a novella or novel. Yet it doesn't break these short stories into segments or blocks or frame it unlike other attempts at multiple short narratives in a feature.

The movement between the various segments and stories is very poetic like from one Greek chorus to another. The central conceit being between the conflict between the war frontlines and the homefront of the village. The scenes of warfare shown in this film is harsh and brutal in a way that anticipates Roberto Rossellini's or Samuel Fuller's later films.

What makes it even more harsh is the sense of futility in the conflict. As the infantrymen who fight each other in the trenches have more in common than either would do with their civilian countryman, anticipating Renoir's La Grande Illusion.

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General
Format : AVI
File size : 700 MiB
Duration : 1h 36mn
Overall bit rate : 1 016 Kbps

Video
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Codec ID : XVID
Duration : 1h 36mn
Bit rate : 903 Kbps
Width : 464 pixels
Height : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 23.976 fps

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Nominal bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz

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