Heroes as Human Beings: An Interpretation of the Soviet Film “The 41st”

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10.2991/assehr.k.210813.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Soviet films, New wave, Gregory Chuhley, Humanitarianism

Abstract

The “new wave” of Soviet film is the second development peak in the history of Soviet film. It inherits the achievements of predecessors in the 1920s in technological form innovation, and creates a creative concept with humanitarianism as the core in theme expression. “New wave” is not the product of “Anti Leftism” and “Anti Socialist Realism”. Its emergence is to rectify the rigid creation “routine” of the Soviet Union in wartime and postwar, and to some extent, it improves the creation method of socialist realism. With the help of “cultural thaw”, the director Chuhley boldly abandoned the creation mode of “pure socialist realism film” which has almost become hypocritical, and successfully created this work with profound thought and poetic flavor. He gave attention and sympathy to the little people in the war and created a group of “heroes as human beings”. His work “The 41st” perfectly takes into account the understanding, education and aesthetic functions of film art, and reaches a high level in poetic expression and human exploration. Therefore, it has become an unavoidable milestone in the study of the “new wave” of Soviet films.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Mengran Tao
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/17
TI  - Heroes as Human Beings: An Interpretation of the Soviet Film “The 41st”
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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