The film The New Babylon (Novyy Vavilon) was directed by Kozintsev and Trauberg in 1929. It is a sympathetic account of the history of the Paris Commune of 1871 and tells the story of two lovers who are separated by the fighting.
Vive la commune
The film The New Babylon (Novyy Vavilon) was directed by Kozintsev and Trauberg in 1929. It is a sympathetic account of the history of the Paris Commune of 1871 and tells the story of two lovers who are separated by the fighting. The film was ultimately suppressed by the Bolsheviks for its anti-war message. It also contained a lot of formal innovations and the musical score for the film was written by the young Dimitri Shostakovitch. Guy Debord used extracts from the film in his own The Society of the Spectacle in 1973. This version uploaded onto youtube unfortunately doesn't have the original score.
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This version has the original score and comes with three different subtitle languages (English, German, French) in the captions tab.
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The contributor suggests you
The contributor suggests you turn off the jazz soundtrack and play some Joy Division over the top instead. In particular this goes well: http://youtu.be/9qgFGqJz9yc
The original score by
The original score by Shostakovich is available for purchase. I bought it so you don't have to http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?k5q3ysiccqow48p there's no password so you just have to extract it.
This film is amazing!
This film is amazing!