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feet knovvledge of the character of his actors as well as to a rare aptitude for seizing the psychological aspect of human situations, without over-dramatising them^ however, and faithfully keeping in them all their artistic drive.
Room is a man apart, altogether apart : his technique is derived from a new conception of cinematographic art in the sense that it accords a fundamental value to a certain serenity of rhythm and the frequent repetition of pp.uses.
I was able to see Mr Room personally and here is a summary of what he was kind enough to tell me.
•'We have always appreciated in the Russian cinema world, the value and force of German films, which have unfailingly been our inspiration in the realm of technique ; as for tha,t I am sure that Germany has been able during these last two or three years to realise the efforts that we have accomphshed in Russia, which have been successful in spite of the precarious means at our disposal, and able to give our fiJm-S a truly artistic form. It seems to me that the universal cause of film^s suffers actually from a sharp division, or shall we say from too accentuated a dispersal of the forces at our command.
We can reasonably expect that in two or three years things will change and that certain adjustments will help sensibly the actual situation. When two private companies have the chance to film together, the results obtained surpass all the most optimistic previsions.
I am ver}/ happy to have received the task, however burdened with responsibilities, of turning the first Russo-German film. For various reasons, and chiefly artistic ones, v/e deci
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