The Machine and the Garden
Using landscape shots from a series of Soviet collectivization films to expose relations of the Nature and the Hero, director challenges widespread understanding of socialist realism.
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Using landscape shots from a series of Soviet collectivization films to expose relations of the Nature and the Hero, director challenges widespread understanding of socialist realism.
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