The New Babylon (1929)
The New Babylon (1929)
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Cast & Crew.
Yelena Kuzmina
Louise Poirier, the shop-assistant
David Gutman
Owner of the 'New Babylon' shop
Andrei Kostrichkin
The main shop-assistant
Sofiya Magarill
An actress
Arnold Arnold
Commune's Central Committee member
Sergei Gerasimov
Lutro, the journalist
Yevgeni Chervyakov
National Guard's officer
Pyotr Sobolevsky
Jean, the soldier
Yanina Zheymo
Therese, a seamstress
Oleg Zhakov
National Guard's soldier
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Police intendent
Lyudmila Semyonova
Can-can dancer
A. Glushkova
Washerwoman
Emil Gal
Bourgeois
S. Gusev
Poirier, an old man
Dmitri Shostakovich
Original Music Composer
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Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1929
Original NameНовый Вавилон
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 32m
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The New Babylon (Russian: Новый Вавилон, romanized: Novyy Vavilon alt. title: Russian: Штурм неба, romanized: Shturm neba) is a 1929 silent historical drama film written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. The film deals with the 1871 Paris Commune and the events leading to it, and follows the encounter and tragic fate of two lovers separated by the barricades of the Commune.
Composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his first film score for this movie. In the fifth reel of the score he quotes the revolutionary anthem, "La Marseillaise" (representing the Commune), juxtaposed contrapuntally with the famous "Can-can" from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.
Footage from The New Babylon was included in Guy Debord's feature film The Society of the Spectacle (1973).
Kozintsev and Trauberg found some of their inspiration in Karl Marx's The Civil War in France and The Class Struggle in France, 1848–50.
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