Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.
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Documentary
6.0
Outrage Coda
Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller, Drama
6.8
Men
5.5
Dune
Animation, Mystery, Thriller
7.3
Saint Seiya: The Heated Battle of the Gods
Action, Animation, Fantasy
7.5
Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
Documentary
6.6
Star
Drama
6.3
Young and Dangerous 2
Action, Crime, Thriller
6.4
way
5.7
The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora
Comedy
6.4
40
5.5
The Merry Frolics of Satan
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
6.4
Viva! Django
Action, Western
7.1
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Documentary
7.4
Bergman Island
Drama, Romance
6.2
Star
Drama
6.3
Late Spring
Drama
8.0
The Archies
Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
6.3
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived
Documentary
6.0
Battleship Potemkin
Drama, History, War
7.6
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Drama
6.8
Women of Today
Documentary
0.0
Man with a Movie Camera
Documentary
7.8
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
Comedy
5.8
The Vow
History
3.5
The End of St. Petersburg
Drama
6.7
The House on Trubnaya
Comedy
6.5
The Club of the Big Deed
5.2
Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole
Comedy
6.2
Kino Eye
Documentary
6.8
Thumper
Crime, Drama, Thriller
5.6
Take Me
Comedy, Crime
5.8
The Black Mask
Crime
8.0
Codename: Kyril
Drama, Action, Thriller
0.0
Crossed
Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
1.0
Jack Movez
Action, Crime
1.0
Snuffed Out
Crime
0.0
Imperio de un traficante
Action
5.0
The Arizona Express
Crime, Drama
5.6