Die Höhe

Vysota is a 1957 Mosfilm movie, with both colour and black and white footage and very brautiful camera moves, besides an interesting setting: the construction of a blast furnace by nomadic specialized workers whose labour takes place in high heights. Stated that, I shall also add that the romantic drama or melodrama is a little tepid and does not engage as other Soviet movies. There are some issues which I am not sure if they are subtly presented in a critical way or if they just normalize the problems: sexism on the one hand, and, on the other hand, a romantized view on risking workers' lives in order to reach production goals. By the way, there is at least one more element that caught my attention: in other movies, often the bad guys who appear as opponents in the script are nobles, or capitalists, os Nazis, but here, although few, they are people from the very socialist production system, including workers as Khaenko, and managers like Deryabin. They may be corrupt, selfish, liars, greedy, lazy, schemers.