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21 May 2026 Anères (France)
Festival du Cinéma muet d'Anères:
Accordion : Grégory Daltin Saxophones, voice : David Haudrechy - Festival d'Anères location
Program Info: The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Neobychainye priklyucheniya mistera Vesta v strane bolshevikovs) de Lev Koulechov with Porfiri Podobed, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Boris Barnet 1924 / Soviet Union / 0h58 / DCP / original version with French subtitles Copy: Cinémathèque de Toulouse
Mr. West, a rich American, arrives in Moscow with a lot of preconceptions about the red ogre. So, in his luggage, he brings a cowboy to ensure his safety. But here he is who loses his way and falls into the hands of a gang determined to play the evil communists...
Lev Kuleshov, who had set up an experimental film laboratory and was experimenting with editing, took advantage of the installation of the first Goskino studio in Moscow to make this comedy with deliberately grotesque gags, both a satirical parody of American society and Hollywood "serials" and, in the end, an act of propaganda in favour of the USSR. Indeed, after being ridiculed, molested, lugged around, robbed of his dollars, and then freed by Jeddi and the Soviet militia, it is with the monuments of Moscow and plans of the Red Army parading that Mr. West discovers the real Bolsheviks. A whirlwind mise-en-scène, mixtures of superimpositions, and supercharged editing are certainly a reminder of the importance that Kuleshov may have had in the history of world silent cinema. Le Monde, 22 February 2008
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