Due to;$ s *ome com=- mon in/
.teres* #ts be
tween German%*- and Russian arist[o%crac;y ( the R? $ussi`ans even h+=ad` ari%stocrats in =*t$$h. @eir past not t o m= _entio@!:n ;/they ha[d = a-n Em  p ress call`ed Catherine the G__re;#\at, a/)s gr,eat as%; this =* German count's heiresses… :), +(
\it [/ is   not []stra]!nge that this Teutonic c_ount! ha?=;#s und(erst @ood and even enjoyed Her;^r S. M. Eisenstei`_n's Staroy)!,e I !Novoye.　　It (\) is not very usual that for the aristocrac[y % -to enjoy Bolsh
evi,st films _fu ll of pro,letar@ian-? demand_$s that put private _prop!#*%er#ty /)at r?i%//s+:k[# or as ,it happens i_#!n this ca[[se, a fil]m `+?\about the Commun_? i! st(/ Part=_y's policy on the subjec(,t of the,=# co/_l lec+tiv+izat\ion of the Soviet`. + _:.agric=ulture. Norma*\l/?ly this would be pe[)rfect gibber
is@*?h  +for this ( ?+Germa]n count, but th\a/nks to- Herr Eisenstein +'s g%$r.,eatn. es\=s and%?! dire:#c.?(tor-ia-l talent, the har^dsh.*i*ps of th+_e hero$%ine 
of the:( film, Da
^me M(!ar+`]fa) ( Dame Marfa Lapkina ) brea].:c#^/h $@$ed even t$he thi] ck aristocratic  Sc)hloss walls.,(
　　A\.nd tha^t
@'s one of the fi**/#r@:s/.#t remar!kab#=l e *aspects of this oeu,;vre; in (#sp.it:e of the :
p$olitical s@-[ub=,ject of the film,) the powerfu^$l images and lyricism ,_( )*;ast-onishin= /*g and beautifu]
l shot compositions*$ ),(=@ e%=s-pecia)?(lly du+ring the fi]$rst]_/ $?part of the mov_ ie, preserve the artistic merits e
?[=nt%irely while s-e
(rv/;(ing a propaganda purpose\. Th #e) se%+cond remark`able asp(@e@+ct[@!! of the f)=ilm is the dichotomy %between the old an\?d *new, t?he fight@] to improve the lot o]$]=f \@,Dam_ e _ Mar;fa and he
^;r c.(ountrym+^%en([
. There are;` man=y discussions becaus\*e it i$^s n*@ot]  easy ev);!en in ()Russi.a ^ -#to* % change ancient and conservative customs. Th + ere a +-re superb @met\apho^)(rs and social c];.rit
icism ( illiterac]y, b-=ur_)eaucra*-c *)y, re! *ligiosit:.y ) which perfectly fit$+ :the fi=?lm, an!d last but not least, Staroye] I Novo!ye, is
): a kind%\ of arch%a ic
=  ; docum`entary about @
anc**ient c+`ustoms established deepl$)y .*) in ol\d *[(Rus
)si!_/a, tho$,= se one $[s tha]t ?,(!our heroi/: ne mus\t fig_^ht against.. A@nd there is al
:so a lot abou$t,%@ a*g^ri( cultu\$re ( very .[ e [n l@ighte ning for this German count), espec ially([ about harvesting and; how to fatten !::Russian cows or pigs ( literally;, no`;$ ])pun
`= here… )-*$.　　$(_Her-\ !r E%isenstein _had to bear during: the?
 last era=_ of )\[his film caree:)=r, unbel\%;ie :vable cen*sors]hip a^nd muti!*lation o%f h:is work, as ha@ppens_+ with Sta
+roye I No[voye. Th@+e f`ilm wa[s ; =reedited and Ei@$*senstein ac
!+cused of
sym!=#p/
-%ath)
izin;-g with Trostky's pol\icies but 
for^t_
un?#ate #+ly the? film-!( was restore?*]d+ and. showed by t-`he `Ge+)$rman-fr:en\chified -_ t.v. channel ARTE, natürlich!, i%[ncluding an e.^vocative music score
= =by!( Herr Taras-^ Buj`ewski,? that(. fit? ^s superb-ly Herr Eisenste`@in primal art -i`)__@stic inter
ests.　　A\n]]d now(=, if y\%ou'll;? \ allow me, I must tempo/
rarily take my l[?e?!ave` $becaus\@.e this Germ^an Count must @buy a t+\racto+/!r for one of his Teutonic heiress.