Chapaev

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by Julian Graffy

Type: Studies
Subject: One Film > Chapaev
Keywords: Sergey Vasilev, Georgi Vasilyev, Soviet cinema
Publishing date: 2010
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Collection: KINOfiles Film Companion
Language: English

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Paperback • 128 pages
5 ½ x 11 ¼ inches (14 x 28.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-85043-987-5

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Book Presentation:
Chapaev is the most popular film of the Soviet era. Directed by Georgi and Sergei Vasilev, it tells of the legendary exploits of the Red Army Commander Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev during the Russian Civil War. Its greatest fan was Joseph Stalin, who saw it 38 times at late-night showings in the Kremlin. It was both praised by Party ideologues for its faithfulness to the Bolshevik cause and loved by mass audiences for its adventure sequences and its tragic love story. For over seventy years, Chapaev, Furmanov the Commissar, Petka and Anka have remained heroes of the Russian popular imagination. This inspirational guide to the film tells the story of the real-life Chapaev, of the novel by Dmitri Furmanov, and of the struggles to make the film. Julian Graffy offers a detailed analysis of the film itself and then considers Chapaev’s extraordinary after-life. He demonstrates that to understand Chapaev’s appeal is to understand something about what it means to be Russian.

About the Author:
Julian Graffy is Professor of Russian Literature and Cinema at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He has written widely on Russian literature and film and is the author of the Bed and Sofa Kinofile Film Companion in I.B. Tauris' Kino Series.

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