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The New Babylon (1929) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1929 · 92 mins · Russian
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- Directed by
- Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
- Starring
- Yelena Kuzmina, Tamara Makarova, Sergei Gerasimov, Aleksandr Orlov, Oleg Zhakov, Anna Zarzhitskaya
Set during the brief existence of the Paris Commune, a conscripted soldier falls for a Communard shopkeeper. When the regular army moves in to crush the uprising, he is ordered to fight against his fellow Parisians, forcing the couple to confront the harsh realities of war and loyalty.
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