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"This was a principal feature of ours
as directors, to constantly deny whatever had already been discovered" |
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In 1929 the Soviet anti formalist backlash swept through Leningrad's art world. Caught in the politics and bureaucracy was the celebrated anti-war history of the Paris commune "New Babylon" the last film to be produced by Leonid Trauberg and Grigorii Kozintsev's avant garde "Factory of the Eccentric Actor", and the first film to feature music specially composed by 23 year old prodigy Dimitri Shostakovich. |