Open AccessWorld War Two in the Cinema of the Late 1950s
Author(s) -
Lydia Alexeyevna Zaitseva
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
vestnik vgik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik42-320-30
Subject(s) - movie theater , theme (computing) , character (mathematics) , period (music) , alien , first world war , history , art , literature , art history , aesthetics , humanities , political science , law , computer science , politics , geometry , mathematics , citizenship , operating system
The article explores the theme of the war in the cinema of the late 1950s as exemplified by the landmark films of the period: «Soldiers» (dir. A. Ivanov) and «The Cranes Are Flying» (dir. M. Kalatozov) with the protagonist as an ordinary person poorly suited for warfare on the one pole of the conflict, and the tragic character of the alien situations on the other.