Lev Kuleshov: Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)

Starring Vselodod Pudovkin, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Leonid Obolenskii, Sergei Komarov, Porfiri Podobed, Leo Mur.

Description: Lev Kuleshov scored one of Soviet cinema's first successes with this story about a straightlaced American who comes to Soviet Russia and is disabused of his prejudices about the socialist state. Kuleshov, inventor of many of the action techniques that would become the hallmark of early Soviet cinema, uses all the tricks in his wizard's bag on this chase through Moscow.

1924

Antireligious Propaganda Chervontsy Death of Lenin Industrialization Debate Lenin Enrollment Lenin’s Succession Living Church Nepmen Revolutionary Manliness Scissors Crisis KINO: Creating a Socialist Cinema Socialist Legality Union Treaty Workers’ Clubs Young Communists