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The Bolshevik Trilogy Three Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1925-1928)

Contents: Mother (1926), The End of St. Petersburg (1927), Storm Over Asia (1928) and Chess Fever (1925).

The film is accompanied by music scores composed and performed by a number of musicians, including Antonio Coppola, Vladimir Yurovsky, and Timothy Brock and the Olympia Chamber Orchestra.

Supplementary material includes audio commentary for Mother (1926) by historian Peter Bagrov; audio commentary for Storm Over Asia by historian Jan-Christopher Horak; a presentation of the comedy Chess Fever (1925); the short film Notebooks of a Tourist Presents: St. Petersburg (circa 1920); the short film Amateur Images of St. Petersburg (1930); a comparison of Pudovkin’s “Five Principles of Editing”; “A Revolution in Five Moves,” a visual essay showcasing the five edits that inspired the Bolshevik revolution; and an insert booklet featuring a new essay by film author and historian Amy Sargeant.

This collection may contain the best-available home video editions of these films.

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