Babel would be purged in 1940, and the great Soviet Jewish actor Shloyme Mikhoels, who sings a lullaby in Yiddish to little Jimmy Patterson at the end of the film, would be killed on Stalin’s orders in 1948 his scene was cut from later prints of the film. The authors of the screenplay - Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov, Valentin Katayev, and Isaac Babel (Odessans all, you’ll note) - all refused to have their names appear in the credits. The shadow of Stalin’s purges hangs over the screen, and the leader’s face appears at the end, on a banner above the marching masses. As I mentioned in the panel discussion after the screening - in which I was joined by Slavists Sasha Razor and Sarah Valentine, as well as Yiddish scholar Robert Peckerar, who organized the event - the mind reels at the thought that Circus came out a year after Triumph of the Will, and three years before Gone with the Wind…īut, of course, the story isn’t all bread and circuses, as it were. For those unfamiliar with its plot, it’s enough to say that the film stars Alexandrov’s wife, Lyubov Orlova - the darling of the Soviet screen, and Stalin’s favorite actress - as the mother of then three-year-old James Patterson, the real-life son of an African American immigrant to the USSR. Cinematically, it really is the Soviet answer to Busby Berkeley but the political challenge it poses to the United States is more serious and more direct. I use the word “spectacularly” advisedly - the film is a proper spectacle, not simply because its subject is “the greatest show on earth,” but because it was meant to rival anything Hollywood, the Babylon of Showbiz, could produce. Accounts impersonating staff/faculty are not allowed unless appropriately flaired.On Friday I participated in a screening of Grigori Aleksandrov’s spectacularly entertaining film Circus (1936). Rude PMs to mods, or PMs after being muted on modmail can result in a permanent ban.įollow the instructions here to get Blue/Gold verified flair.
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