In December 1961, the Cuban Cinematheque screened two Soviet films that, in the first week of this month, will be shown in theaters 23 and 12 in commemoration of those first screenings 60 years ago.
It is a restored copy of The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925), which can be enjoyed by the public this Wednesday, December 1 at 5:00 pm in the aforementioned room.
For many critics, this film is the most important film of all time. This film, although it was commissioned, was key in Eisenstein’s aesthetic work, who provided a free and personal version of the historical events narrated through a bold and successful realization.
Likewise, during the same day, spectators who attend the 23rd and 12th will be able to see the interesting documentary On the trail of the battleship Potemkin (Artem Demen, 2007).
This German feature film addresses — over eight decades — the process of rebuilding the definitive restored copy of Serguei’s classic from the different localized versions, with interviews with scholars of his work and the composer who reconstructed the original score.
Similarly, on Thursday, December 2, also at 5:00 pm, La madre (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1926) will be screened, an essential title in the history of the seventh art and free adaptation of the homonymous novel by Máximo Gorki. In addition, it is the first feature film in director Pudovkin’s trilogy, which completes The End of Saint Petersburg and Tempest over Asia.
Both special functions will be accompanied, respectively, by numbers 466 and 467 of the Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano.
