Arsen . Arsen
Based on a 19th Georgian century epic, the film tells the story of Arsen, son of a poor villager who starts to fight the tsarist representatives in Georgia. He lives in the mountains and helps the poor against the armed Cossacks as well as speculative merchants. Caught once, having been betrayed, he...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Russian |
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Goskinprom Gruzii
1937
Soviet Union |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:ede6a6eb-71d3-45b9-9685-0c6fcf327991 |
| Summary: | Based on a 19th Georgian century epic, the film tells the story of Arsen, son of a poor villager who starts to fight the tsarist representatives in Georgia. He lives in the mountains and helps the poor against the armed Cossacks as well as speculative merchants. Caught once, having been betrayed, he manages to escape from prison with his friends' help and forgives the betrayer. Yet the same person kills Arsen when he attempts to start an armed uprising. |
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| Published: | 1937 |