"Chapaev" is the most popular film of the Soviet era. Directed by
Georgi and Sergei Vasilev, it tells of the legendary exploits of
the Red Army Commander Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev during the Russian
Civil War. Its greatest fan was Joseph Stalin, who saw it 38 times
at late-night showings in the Kremlin. It was both praised by Party
ideologues for its faithfulness to the Bolshevik cause and loved by
mass audiences for its adventure sequences and its tragic love
story. For over seventy years, "Chapaev", Furmanov the Commissar,
Petka and Anka have remained heroes of the Russian popular
imagination. This illuminating and enjoyable companion tells the
story of the real-life Chapaev, of the novel by Dmitri Furmanov,
and of the struggles to make the film. Julian Graffy offers a
detailed analysis of the film itself and then considers Chapaev's
extraordinary after-life. The film provoked poetry by Osip
Mandelstam and a novel by Viktor Pelevin, operas and scabrous
popular anecdotes. Graffy shows that to understand Chapaev's appeal
is to understand something about what it means to be Russian.
General
| Imprint: |
I.B. Tauris
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
KINOfiles Film Companion |
| Release date: |
December 2009 |
| First published: |
February 2010 |
| Authors: |
Julian Graffy
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
144 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-85043-987-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-85043-987-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781850439875 |
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