mohammedsverdolov

I really didn't know whether the actors were really actors or an old railway cross guard and his old wife.. they weren't acting or pretending..they seemed that they were living their real everyday life beside the scenes all looked like a still life painting.

There is a scene in this movie which I have repeatedly replayed it many times. it's the scene of the village young man and the old woman when they arrived St. Petersburg. the camera from a far angle following them . showing them between the shadows of tsarist giant status. to the bridge when they stood aside letting the horseman cop in the center of the scene. Kept following them again from a far angle above labor houses. they looked tiny and wasted in the huge imperial city. a great traditional Russian music soundtrack was added to this scene at 1969 in Mosfilm studios. this scene shows the scenographical theory of the director and the soviet montage method which was superior at these times.