A heroic fantasy about an artist’s destiny at the tumultuous time of social transformations. One of director Alexander Mitta’s best films. The south of Russia, 1920. In a town square, a mono-performance is on, based on Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”. The film’s hero who took the pseudonym “Revarm”, which stands for “Revolutionary Art for the Masses”, is seriously interested in theatre. The real life and the stage one are intertwined in his destiny. In a provincial town where the power continuously changes hands, going from the Reds to the Whites, from the Whites to a band of the Greens, this youthful stage reformer, endowed with the gift of persuasion, attracts people to his cause, leaving no one indifferent.…

在第一次世界大战的战壕里，一个穿着制服的长着雀斑的俄罗斯男孩在德国的瓦斯袭击中失明了。由于他敏锐的听觉，他被安排在前线，在巨大的金属管道处监听敌机，形成一种预警系统。                                                                      　　颜色褪去了，好像图像是从另一个时间来的。但这部颗粒化的影片也具有风格化、抽象化的特点。一点一点地，身体 处于中心位置——它们的脆弱性和能量，它们看起来就像是生物。照相机和编辑与那个年轻的盲人保持同步。他蹒跚地穿过军营，惹恼了其他人，因为他只能通过触摸来抓住周围的环境。他的脸仍然是敞开的，无辜的。他似乎在为自己的士兵寻找一个地方，无论是字面上还是比喻上。为谢尔盖·拉赫玛尼诺夫的第三钢琴协奏曲第30首（1909年）和交响曲舞蹈第45首（1940年）排练的当代管弦乐队纪录片并没有打断叙述的流程，而是将主题和主题翻译成了一个声音共鸣室。

A heroic fantasy about an artist’s destiny at the tumultuous time of social transformations. One of director Alexander Mitta’s best films. The south of Russia, 1920. In a town square, a mono-performance is on, based on Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”. The film’s hero who took the pseudonym “Revarm”, which stands for “Revolutionary Art for the Masses”, is seriously interested in theatre. The real life and the stage one are intertwined in his destiny. In a provincial town where the power continuously changes hands, going from the Reds to the Whites, from the Whites to a band of the Greens, this youthful stage reformer, endowed with the gift of persuasion, attracts people to his cause, leaving no one indifferent.…