Suck Smerti
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Луч смерти / Lutsch Smerti |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1925 |
| length | 125 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lew Kuleschow |
| script | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| production | Goskino |
| camera | Alexander Lewitzky |
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Lutsch smerti (in German: The death ray ) is a 1924 Soviet science fiction and propaganda silent film by Lew Kuleschow , based on a script by Vsevolod Pudowkin .
action
In some unspecified western country. The capitalist system is seething, the labor leader Thomas Lann instigates a riot in the “Helium” factory. When he was arrested at the instigation of the factory owner, his comrades helped him to escape. Lann reaches the Soviet Union. Here he wants to get in touch with engineer Podobed, the inventor of the ominous "death rays", because he believes that with this powerful weapon he will be able to defeat and overcome the hated system at home. But his opponent, the fascist Fog, is on his tracks and without further ado kidnaps the inventor of this weapon in order to use his knowledge to enslave the workers. There is a lot of back and forth until Lann finally gets the death ray device into his hands and thus destroys the capitalist exploiters by shooting down approaching bombers with the rays from the air, which are to be used against the revolutionaries.
Production notes
Lutsch smerti premiered on March 16, 1925 in the USSR. The film did not open in Germany.
Vsevolod Pudovkin , later one of the most famous directors of the Soviet film, worked here as an assistant director, screenwriter and film architect.
Reviews
“The subject can counter Kuleschow's inclination for the fantastic, for technical tricks. Here, too, he experimented with the possibilities of film, including an unusual montage. "
“[The] film ... was intended to show that Soviet cinematography can produce films that can compete with the successful sensational films in America and Western Europe. The critics rightly accused the film of having a naive fable and that the stringing together of effective tricks does not help the dramaturgy, but rather a shame. (…) The crowd scenes in which real factory work appeared as extras deserve attention. "
Web links
- Sucking Smerti in the Internet Movie Database (English)