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to som
e common intere%sts betw.een German and Ru[?ssian^] aristocra[:@$cy ( :- t$/he Russ)[*ians e$v?en h -#ad: aristocr.ats -+in their past no#,+t to ment%,$ion ![#t #hey had (`^#an;^ Empress called Catherine  t+he Great, as great _( as\(^@ this Ge]*%rman count's_ hei@\resses… ), it is not strange t _*hat this$#)%# Teutonic ,,count has u/^ nder ?stood a-n% #d even!. enjoye$d Herr[-`\ S?@[. M.%\ Eise?=nstein's St`^]aroye I Novoye.　　I
/`t is no :t very us(;ual th( [at for]`- th%+e aristoc..racy to[\ enjoy Bolshevist films f#ull of proletaria+- n deman_/d!s -)that put private property at($^ risk or`/= as[_ it h\\[-appe@_ns i=]n? this=== c(ase, a  film about the Comm,,,=unis ;t P;$arty-'s#] policy on the subject of the co/llectivizat[ion of`[ t^@/[he Soviet/+! ag,.,riculture. Normall%* y t_]+his wo-.uld be perf\ect _(gib ;.ber` )ish fo`:r


this German *count, but thanks to Her#r?. Eis_enste:in /?\'s greatness 
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alent,`?$ the hardships` of th:!e hero-!ine of the film, Dame M#+arf(=@a ])!( Dame Mar;_fa Lapkina;
 )$ b:reached _even the thick: ari*stocratic Schloss walls]!,@.　　And )[that.
's, ,.on? `e of the]$ [first remarka [-ble aspe_$$cts of thi]@s oeuvre; in] spite %?=of th-%e po:*
litical subject \,of the fi$$-l%]m, th ?]#e powe[#[rful images a.nd lyrici%#sm ( astonishing [-an?
.d beau$\ti,-ful shot compositi,)ons ;
), especi./ally du ring the fir\_st par.#t ]-o).f t-`he ,\mov
ie%[%, preserve
\th:_@ e a)# rtistic mer?/its entirel /y while ser%`vin:g a propaga\);nda ]!purpose. !The second rema,rk_(%:able aspec;@t of the f^%_ilm is @the dichotomy betw ]een the old a@nd new, the f (ight $/to i: #[mprove the?! l^ot\/_ of Dame Marfa and! her coun[\trymen. T;here ar-e many discussion^]s becaus$] %:e it is)! n##/ot easy :-even in R/ ussia% to change,_ ancient and con(_se:r?vative custom;_,s. There$ are superb met]!aph$or:
$`s#-_ and social criti*?cism ( illiteracy, bureaucracy, +-re@)-+ligiosity:] ) !!) which* perfectl `y fi$t th+]e f!
ilm, and last but not least, Sta/ )roy+=e I :N*.ovo#?:#ye!`, is *;a[  ki*nd of a rchaic documentary abo,ut ancient customs establish(ed deepl^ y in old R=
:@ussia, those ones that our her(
%oine$ m]ust fight a_\@gainst. An%)d/ there is also a ^lot about ag$_-ri$-)cul-ture ( v*\er?_y enlightenin?# -g for t\=,his. German* count), espec^ia@lly about harvesting and how $to fa%) tten Russian/  cow%  s%   or%$ p:?igs ( )?-literall(y, no- ^pun` here… ) ?.)_! 　　^H+
#err E?*;isenstein had
` to bea$( +r ==!d/ ;uring?!- th:%e:/[ last era of his film care(+er\$, un$$believab ;#le?
: censor;@sh(-ip and mu
til_ation of h!#-is work,@ as happ(ens :_wit*+h S. t`.aroy/%e I N/ovoye. Th_^e ]
$film was reedited and Ei#sens-t#!e#i) _n. accus!#=ed of sympathi:zin*+g with `*`Trost)_ky's)`$ policies but fortunately * the ^[film was restored a`^`nd showed by the \+German-frenchified t.v. c+[ha\;nn*!%
el ARTE, natürlich!, (!/)i\ncluding a)/n ev]
[ocative music s)core by Herr (Taras;? Bu\jewski, that fits sup,erbl-%y Herr Eisenst*ein@% p $rima.\l a_r =:t %`isti]c int=(erest= *;s*.?,　　And@) now, if@*] you'll al(^low me, I %must tempor)#arily take^ my l[eave @bec+^ause this ] Ger_
man Count must buy a tract:%or :^for; one o\f his, Teuton]ic heiress.