Watch Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film (1968) Online

Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. Assigned to Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, the filming followed the same path as with his previous effort, "Que Viva Mexico", into cost overrun and over-shooting of footage. Furthermore, Eisenstein's usage of forbidden experimental film techniques outraged his government superiors, who ordered the film destroyed before it was even completed. All that survives are the first and last frames of each shot, preserved by Sergei Eisenstein’s wife, Pera Atasheva. The 1967 reconstruction, by Naum Kleiman of the Eisenstein Museum and Sergei Yutkevich of Gosfilmofond, places these frames in order, approximating the original film. Read More

Watch Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film online. Featuring Viktor Kartashov and Boris Zakhava, Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film is classified as Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 6.3. It is available for streaming online in the USA on 1 services such as Criterion Channel. The movie was filmed in Russia and was released on 1968. Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film was directed by Nikolai Maslov,Stanislav Rostotsky,Sergei Eisenstein,Sergei Yutkevich. Read Less