
Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film
Drama
Overview
Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. Assigned to Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, the filming followed the same path as with his previous effort, "Que Viva Mexico", into cost overrun and over-shooting of footage. Furthermore, Eisenstein's usage of forbidden experimental film techniques outraged his government superiors, who ordered the film destroyed before it was even completed. All that survives are the first and last frames of each shot, preserved by Sergei Eisenstein’s wife, Pera Atasheva. The 1967 reconstruction, by Naum Kleiman of the Eisenstein Museum and Sergei Yutkevich of Gosfilmofond, places these frames in order, approximating the original film.
Top Cast


Viktor Kartashov
Viktor Kartashov
Степок
Viktor Kartashov
Степок


Boris Zakhava
Boris Zakhava
Samokhin, Stepok's Father
Boris Zakhava
Samokhin, Stepok's Father


Pyotr Arzhanov
Pyotr Arzhanov
Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)
Pyotr Arzhanov
Political Commissioner (as Pavel Ardzhanov)


Yelizaveta Teleshyova
Yelizaveta Teleshyova
President of Kolkhoz
Yelizaveta Teleshyova
President of Kolkhoz
Nikolai Maslov
Nikolai Maslov
Arsonist
Nikolai Maslov
Arsonist


Nikolai Khmelyov
Nikolai Khmelyov
Peasant
Nikolai Khmelyov
Peasant


Stanislav Rostotsky
Stanislav Rostotsky
Boy
Stanislav Rostotsky
Boy
Yakov Zajtsev
Yakov Zajtsev
Yakov Zajtsev


Evgenia Bagorskaya
Evgenia Bagorskaya
Evgenia Bagorskaya


Vasiliy Savitskiy
Vasiliy Savitskiy
Bearded man
Vasiliy Savitskiy
Bearded man
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