Lev KULESHOV Лев КУЛЕШОВ Lev KOULECHOV   USSR, 1933, 95 mn  Black and white, fiction

The Great Consoler ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Великий утешитель    Le Grand Consolateur  Velikiy uteshitel

Plot synopsis

<...>The film takes place in America in 1899, and in its principal plot depicts Bill Porter, who is the great consoler of the title, in prison. His writing skills earn him privileges from the governor and he is spared the inhumane treatment meted out to other prisoners. Porter is very much aware of the brutality around him but, mindful of his better conditions, refuses to write about prison life. He prefers to console his less-well-treated friends, and indeed all his readers, with excessively romantic fantasies in which good invariably triumphs.<...>
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Selected in the following festivals :

- 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' Festival, Bologna (Italy), 2008

- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005

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