Masters Of The Soviet Cinema

Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Vertov: These Soviet Film Directors Are Acknowledged To Be Among The Greatest In The History Of Cinematography. To Eisenstein We Owe Such Films As Battleship Potemkin And October; To Pudovkin Mother And The End Of St Petersburg; To Dovzhenko Earth And Zvenigora; And To Vertov The Man With A Movie Camera And The Three Songs Of Lenin. Herbert Marshall Knew Each Of Them Personally, Both As Artists And As Friends, And Shared Their Cinema World When He Was A Student At The Gik (the Moscow State Institute Of Cinematography) In The Heady Years Following The Revolution Into The Period Of The First Five Year Plan.