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Women Pioneers of Silent CinemaFilm 17 of 22
The Peasant Women of Ryazan
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Olga Preobrazhenskaya, 1927, shot in a Ryazan village: two women, Anna and Vasilisa, under the same patriarchal roof, one broken by it, one walking out. War, a rape, a child, a Revolution that rearranges the furniture but not the grief. Co-directed with Ivan Pravov. It is the Soviet silent that treats the peasant household as a political unit, and Preobrazhenskaya as one of the few women who got to say so from behind the camera.
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Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema
Olga Preobrazhenskaya directed this Sovkino feature with Ivan Pravov, on location in a Ryazan village, which is a woman holding the chair on a state production and taking it outdoors. Two women share one patriarchal roof: one broken by it, one walking out. She was one of the few women directing features in the Soviet 1920s, and she uses that authority on the peasant household as a political unit. Scenario by Olga Vishnevskaya and Boris Altshuler, with Konstantin Kuznetsov on camera; war, a rape, a child, and a Revolution that changes the slogans more than the grief.
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