War Movies And Development Of Russian Cinema

War movies and development of Russian cinema.

It is hard to tell what came first: war or peace but consequences and long-lasting effects of war not always clearly visible. Jeannette Rankin, an American politician, and women's rights advocate famously said: “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” (Paffenroth) But wars just like earthquakes can be prepared for ahead of time. Conflicts bear only fruit - loses, yet sometimes wars are inevitable to fight for self-defense or on the opposite being part of invader if your country’s radical political party pushes predacious agenda on its neighbors. There were many reasons why war movies were produced: from propaganda to war condemnation - showing its horrors and consequences same time sending an antiwar message. War films have often been used as flag billowing in the wind propaganda to encourage national pride, morale as we saw in the movie The Battleship Potemkin (1925), by Sergei Eisenstein. It was a show stopper for me to see red color in the only black and white movie technology at that time and the same time it was a cheap trick to boost morale and enlarge already fast-growing Bolshevik army.