Torn Boots

Torn Boots

1933
1h 25m
1.0

1.0/10

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Drama
Overview

Working with children led Barskaya to create superb direct sound and an inspired style of shooting. Don’t look for conventional cinematic syntax here. The film is chaotic in the way that Soviet films still knew how to be, and Langlois couldn’t help but be seduced by its rebellious spirit, its anarchy and love of children, comparable to Vigo’s Zero de conduite. As well as being a film made with and for children, it offers a complex take on Western society. Pre-Nazi Germany is not named as such but is carefully reconstructed, possibly under advice from Karl Radek, and children offer a playful reflection of class struggle – doubly excluded, as proletarians and as minors. “They play in the same way that they live”, one intertitle says. The interaction between their comical games and the yet more ludicrous ones played by adults is developed on several levels.

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Production Information

Production Companies
Mezhrabpomfilm
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
Russian

Keywords

labor strike woman director anti-fascism

Quick Facts

Original Title Рваные башмаки
Release Date December 17, 1933
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt0025738

Cast

Mikhail Klimov
Mikhail Klimov

Pastor

Ivan Novoseltsev
Ivan Novoseltsev

Valter's father

Varvara Alyokhina
Varvara Alyokhina

School teacher

Klavdiya Polovikova
Klavdiya Polovikova

Blind woman

Vladimir Uralskiy
Vladimir Uralskiy

Police agent

Lev Losev
Lev Losev

Nikolay Losev
Nikolay Losev

Anna Chekulaeva
Anna Chekulaeva

Valter's mother

Natalia Sadovskaya
Natalia Sadovskaya

Olga Bazanova
Olga Bazanova

(uncredited)

Georgi Millyar
Georgi Millyar

Passerby (uncredited)

Vladimir Mikhaylov
Vladimir Mikhaylov

Passerby (uncredited)

Key Crew

Margarita Barskaya
Director
Margarita Barskaya
Writer