Georgi Astafyev

"Oktyabryuhov and Dekabryuhov" (alternate title "Dekabryuhov and Oktyabryuhov") - black-and-white silent eccentric comedy scripted by Mayakovsky, written a decade of the October Revolution. On the interpersonal relationships of three people on the background of the revolutionary working days. The film premiered October 27, 1928.

Zvenigora is less a film than a tone poem, set forth by master Russian cinematic poet Alexander Dovzhenko. Moving outside the studio system for the first time (it was his fourth film), Dovzhenko uses lyrical location shots of rural Ukraine and its farmers to excellent advantage. (All Movie Guide)