| Brief Description: | Glasnost Film Festival Vol. 9: Marshall Blucher: A Portrait Against
the Background of an Epoch. This daring film tries to unlock the
riddle of the dramatic 30's in the Soviet Union by studying the fate
of the entire country through the biography of one hero. Marshal
Vasily Konstantinovich Blucher was one of the best Red Army
commanders, a man of irreproachable courage and compassion. Yet in
1938, he was declared an "enemy of the people," and perished in
Stalin's torture chambers. Rare archival footage illustrates the
excesses of the Stalin era. Directed by Vladimir Eisner, USSR, 1988,
88 mins. Russian with English subtitles. |
