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country being ten or twenty years ahead in its ideas of other countries. And if Russia is going to continue as it has started, and we are going to continue as we have been going on, we will be in the same relation to modern existence as The Doomsday Book was to Queen Elizabeth.
They have quaint little ways these oddities who decide that Russian films shall not under any circumstances be shown. They could not for the life of them give you a good reason or indeed any reason at all why they should not be seen. But they are emphatic. And to be emphatic is a positive condition, and a positive condition of mind, soul or spirit must be a rare treat to them. So far as one can judge that is the only cause for their behaviour. And they probably feel that anything which throws them into any sort of positive condition must be a menace, and that the positive condition itself is a sure sign of their so to speak papal infallibility in selective misjudgment.
Again then, Russian films (to generalise) are the arrowpoint of cinema progress. How and why?
What is a Russian film, and to go even further, what is Russia ?
The two questions can be answered in one. Russia is a country inhabited by one hundred and forty-seven nationalities, quite different from each other in tradition, in convention and speech (not unlike America this), and its films are the product of these peoples banded together by the Soviet Constitution into the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The first main reason for the greatness of their films is that they are designed to educate, to develop, and link up remote villages with the progress of the big towns. They are de
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