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The Extraordinary adventures of Mr. West in the land of the Bolsheviks
Title
The Extraordinary adventures of Mr. West in the land of the Bolsheviks [videorecording] / director, Lev Kuleshov ; screenplay, Nicolai Aseyov, Vsevolod Pudovkin.
Published
[New York] : Kino International, 1991.
Physical Description
1 videocassette (78 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 1/2 in. (VHS).
Notes
"The first production of Lev Kuleshov's Film Workshop, 1924."
Transliterated Russian title: Neobychainiye priklucheniya Mistera Vesta y stranye Bolshevikov.
Sets by Vsevolod Pudovkin.
Summary
In this satiric film on America's slanted view of the Soviet Union, Mr. West is a bourgeois American who visits those "mad, savage Russians" on a dare. Once in Russia, he is faced with an onslaught of strange characters and events, thrusting him into a world of danger and intrigue. He soon concludes that only through his all-American ingenuity will he survive ... and then the farce begins. In Russian with English subtitles, and with orchestral score.
Variant and related titles
Neobychainiye priklucheniya Mistera Vesta y stranye Bolshevikov.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Russian
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
Credits
Sets by Vsevolod Pudovkin.
Cast
Porfiri Podobed, Boris Barnet, Vsevolod Pudovkin.
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