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The film concerns an episode in the Russian Civil War in 1918 in which the Kiev Arsenal January Uprising of workers aided the besieging Bolshevik army against the Ukrainian People's Republic’s Central Rada council who held legal power in Ukraine at the time.
Originally intended as a propaganda film, "Arsenal" is the second component of director Alexander Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy," and it details an episode in the Russian Civil War (~1918) in which the Kiev Arsenal workers aided the Bolshevik army against the ruling Central Rada.
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- Drama, War
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko
- 1929-11-09
Dec 14, 2017 · The overall effect of Arsenal is quite at odds with other familiar Soviet films made at the same time, such as Eisenstein’s The Old and the New (formerly The General Line, 1929) – even if these may have been to some extent influenced by Dovzhenko’s movie.
- Miguel Marías
A montage of images depicts the social upheaval in Russia following World War I leading to the Russian Revolution. TOP CRITIC. Although one is impelled to be in thorough sympathy with its...
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- Semyon Svashenko
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko
- Drama
When the two young soldiers argue, visually there is no difference between them. In the Ukrainian original of Arsenal, the young Russian soldier lapses into Russian in the inter-titles.
Schnitzer et al (eds), Cinema in Revolution, 1987 Made to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Arsenal focuses on a revolt in 1918 when workers at the Kiev ammunition factory supported the Bolsheviks against Ukrainian Nationalists.
From the perspective of the film Arsenal, this is seen as the moment at which the territory was incorporated into the Russian Empire, while the treaty can also be understood as a document of Ukrainian proto-state autonomy.
