Moral Aspects of Russian PreRevolutionary Cinema. Yakov Protazanov

The article is a continuation of the topic raised in the previous issue (#10, 2011). The cinema of Yakov Protazanov, spectacular, public-oriented and answering the requirements of the ideological demands, was also deeply connected with moral traditions of the Russian culture. Protazanov’s cinema spanned a wide terrain ranging from the problems of the moral choice and the nature of evil to the conflict of light and dark.