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ilar tomes. Should you ever ï¬nd yourself in search of genuine âoldâ New York, you could do worse than Sleazoid Express as your guide. âMark Holcomb Liber, George O. Alexander Dovzhenko: A Life in Soviet Film. London: BFI Publishing, 2002. $58.00. In this book George O. Liber takes up the difficult task of writing a biography of a ï¬lm director, which is supposed to account for both Dovzhenkoâs life and his ï¬lms. Liberâs story, narrated primarily as a struggle between Dovzhenkoâs internal aspirations and the pressure of external conditions, is based on numerous archival materials as diverse as secret police reports and Dovzhenkoâs scattered diaries, and on various published documents and scholarly works. Liberâs biography is ï¬rst and foremost a story of Dovzhenkoâs interaction with his time, with the political milieu of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, which had a fundamental impact on both Dovzhenkoâs life and work. Liber also offers an analysis of each of Dovzhenkoâs ï¬lms and literary works in which he distinguishes between the elements that stem from Dovzhenkoâs authentic imagination and those included in order to comply with the official policy. However, the clear-cut distinction between the internal and the external gets
Film Quarterly – University of California Press
Published: Jan 1, 2004
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