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Young hobos are taken to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards, and it works well. But crooks kill one of the young people when they try to damage the newly built railroad to the camp.
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Road to Life
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The Road to Life, Putyovka v Zhizn, Der Weg ins Leben, 人生案内(1932), Путевка в жизнь, Il cammino verso la vita, El camino de la vida, 通往生活的旅行证, Ο Δρόμος προς τη Ζωή
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Theatrical limited
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12 Mar 1931
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Russia
12 Mar 1931
- Theatrical
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27 Jan 1932
- Theatrical limited New York City, New York
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A Soviet Boy's Town; all the life-lessons the Spencer Tracy character teaches his street-urchins is grounded in Marxist-Leninist EternalTruthiness. Plot's kinda disjointed and episodic; along about the halfway mark, I started feeling like they were making up incidents at random just so's they'd have enough movie to project.
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*faire son premier film parlant*
La plupart des pays : une comédie musicale ^^
L'Union Soviétique : FILM SUR LA RÉFORME DES JEUNES DÉLINQUANTS GRÂCE AU TRAVAIL DA ☭
Contient un plan qui a peut être inspiré celui du pigeon qui fait un double take dans Moonraker.
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Hollywood movies about delinquent reformation: Uhh let's force some moralism down these kids throats until they become cops
Soviet movies about delinquent reformation: 100 kids instantly give up the crime life the moment they hear they can build their own railroad
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The first Soviet sound film has some interesting visual ideas and doesn't get bogged down in long static shots of people talking, as so many early talkies did. I particularly like the way Ekk frames groups of faces, filling the screen from top to bottom, but his use of Soviet-style montage is far from the best example of the form. The narrative of the film has its moments and ends with a moving denouement, but moves too slowly overall. An interesting artefact of socialist realist filmmaking, but not a must-see.
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This is a very interesting film. In a way rough to watch in it's Sovjet montage way. It's credited as the first Sovjet talky, but shot like a silent with a lot of dubbed sound and dialog. It creates an unique atmosphere. The story is brutal, filthy and honest with a strong character in Mustapha (Yvan Kyrlya in his only known film role) as one of the charming juvenile crooks we follow. It's not a movie for everyone, but it can be a very rewarding picture if you let it.
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Corny, but the message is better than the American alternatives of the time
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Alcune scelte di regia e di montaggio sono indubbiamente innovative e azzardate per l'epoca, ma perfettamente funzionali a questo che rappresenta il primo film sonoro della storia del cinema sovietico. La forte propaganda di regime però smorza l'effetto di questo racconto di educazione e/o di rieducazione.
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Más allá del moralismo y la remarcada propaganda soviética, el final no deja de ser profundamente emotivo.
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this, the first sound soviet film, endeared itself to me about as much as it stuck in my craw.
in a review one attempts to strive for a kind of narrative symmetry which states that one aspect is good and another aspect is bad. for example, i might be able to say that the stylism in 'road to life' was intriguing but that the propagandism was didactic and naff. alternately i might say that it was too formative an early sound movie but that the emotional core was affecting. thing is, all of that is true, as it happens.
so what does that mean? that both the film's text and its aesthetics each, independently of the other, broke just about…