I want to create a small archive of Revolutionary Movies. If anyone had any please comment on this entry, or e-mail me, a link to YouTube or Google Video would be great. Here are a few of my own.
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This Film is a moving story about the bourgieousie decadence, and the gritty poverty of Cuba before the Revolution, and the terrible lifestyles of people which drove them to revolt and fight for liberation. I can't find the movie in full length, only the trailer which can be found here. The movie can be found on sale here for $16. I highly reccomend it.
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Capitalism and Kids Stuff is a great movie about the inefficiency of capitalism and its complete upsurdity. I have found it in full length divided in 5 parts, I also reccomend this film, as it breaks down the problems of capitalism in a simple easy to understand talk.
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| One of the most controversial dramatic films produced in China during the cultural revolution, "Breaking" is about the struggle to Democratize education in the countryside. Made during Mao Tse Tung's infamous Cultural Revolution. The movie brings a perspective on the Chinese Revolution that is not often heard, about how the Chinese Revolution changed life for the masses. The film in full length is provided above. | |
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This Film is a moving story about the bourgieousie decadence, and the gritty poverty of Cuba before the Revolution, and the terrible lifestyles of people which drove them to revolt and fight for liberation. I can't find the movie in full length, only the trailer which can be found here. The movie can be found on sale here for $16. I highly reccomend it.
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Capitalism and Kids Stuff is a great movie about the inefficiency of capitalism and its complete upsurdity. I have found it in full length divided in 5 parts, I also reccomend this film, as it breaks down the problems of capitalism in a simple easy to understand talk.
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| This is Eisenstein's classic silent film, Battleship Potemkin, which is about a revolt on a battleship during the Russian Revolution of 1905. It was reccomended to me and I haven't had a chance to watch it yet but it looks great. The movie can be found in full length above. | |
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I don't know the Chinese film, but 'I Am Cuba is a masterpiece, one of the greatest films ever made. Unfortunately, even though it was directed by a Soviet filmmaker (Mikhail Kalatozov, who also made 'Cranes are Flying'), it was banned in Cuba because it was judged 'too bourgeois'...
actually the wiki entry says that it played but was badly recieved as being "too stereotypical". When it was released in the USSR, the Soviet audience claimed it "wasn't revolutionary enough." It wasn't banned, it was just unpopular for some reason which is a shame because it is really fantastic.
Hi LeftyHenry ,
This g.ram of Revleft. Nice collection but you really miss an Iconic revolutionary movie man Battleship Potemkin by Eisenstein.. No movie collection is complete without this one.The movie is about the Potemkin Uprising during the Russian Revolution of 1905.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Potemkin_uprising .I don't know whether it is present in youtube or not but it is freely available for download from the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/BattleshipPotemkin
Info http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/
Thats all for now.
Ganapathyram
Thank you G. Ram I'll take a look and I'll post it up here if I can find it on youtube or google video.
Hi Henry it g.ram again,
Thank you for taking my recommendation seriously. Also can you find Pudovkin's Classics in Google ? I had have his two flims "The end of St.Petersburg" and "The Deserter" which i downloaded from a torrent. I thought of giving the torrent file but there are no more seeds and the tracker has deleted it. I use dialup so uploading anywhere is totally not possible for me.I strongly suggest the 2 movies along with "Mother" which is based on Maxim Gorky's novel of same name and "Storm over Asia*" which is a movie based on British Occupation of Southeastern Siberia and Tibet during the Russian Civil War.If you can contact Comrade Marcel of Revleft you might get 2 movies. He is the one who originally uploaded those torrents.
* I have not seen this movie but it forms revolutionary trilogy of Pudovkin's Classics along with "Mother" and "The End of St.Petersburg".
Ganapathyram
Hi Henry, While checking out Wikipedia entry of The End of St.Petersburg A link to Google Video is given there itself
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8307494510245731707&q=pETERSBURG&hl=en
Good Luck finding others ,
See you Later
Ganapathyram
the Soviet audience claimed
I doubt it. Party ideologues claimed it "wasn't revolutionary enough.", not audiences...
Beyond 'Potemkin', I especially recommend Cuban films (by far the best among Communist countries): Lucia, Memories of Underdevelopment, and Ultima Cena, as well as Bolivia's Blood of the Condor. And there are also Polish films, Man of Marble and Man of Iron, which are extremely revolutionary as well, but praising anti-Communist revolutions....
hi g. ram,
i'll take a look at those films later but now i have a slow internet connection and can't do very much.
Sonia,
from the wiki entry:
The movie was not received well by either the Russian or Cuban public and was almost completely forgotten until it was re-discovered by filmmakers in the United States 30 years later.
Even though it had such great support, the movie was given a cold reaction by audiences. In Havana it was criticized for showing a rather stereotyped view of Cubans, while in Moscow it was considered naïve and was not revolutionary enough and was even criticised for being too sympathetic to the lives of the bourgeois pre-Fidel classes. Also, upon its original release, the movie never reached Western countries largely due to it being a Communist production.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Cuba