solo 40 minuti per un film straordinario, terribile e amaro.
guardatelo e soffritene tutti - Ismaele
…Defense Counsel Sedov was made possible only because of
the inauguration of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, allowing for more open
discussion (glasnost) of past misdeeds undertaken by the state. The topic of
the Great Terror, which touched nearly every family in the USSR, had never been
as thoroughly broached previously in any Soviet film as it was in this film.
Here, the Great Terror is exposed for what it truly was – a time of state
sponsored mass killings of innocent people. Defense Counsel Sedov is thus one
of the triumphs of the Gorbachev period.
Not only is the film about a depressing topic and one wrapped up on a pessimistic note, the film is shot in an almost washed-out, dreary black and white. That the film is set during wintertime and that large portions of the film occur in dark, cold Siberia only further contributes to the film's bleak and depressing mood, a mood that was very common across the USSR in the 1980s as economic hardships had begun to wrack the country by this time. The film's haunting score fits perfectly.
Not only is the film about a depressing topic and one wrapped up on a pessimistic note, the film is shot in an almost washed-out, dreary black and white. That the film is set during wintertime and that large portions of the film occur in dark, cold Siberia only further contributes to the film's bleak and depressing mood, a mood that was very common across the USSR in the 1980s as economic hardships had begun to wrack the country by this time. The film's haunting score fits perfectly.
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