Outskirts / The Girl with the Hatbox
by Boris Barnet
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Actor: Anna Sten, Ivan Koval-Samborsky, Serafima Birman, Vladimir Fogel, Vladimir MikhajlovDirector: Boris Barnet
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: A. Spiridonov
Cinematographer: Boris Filshin
Cinematographer: Boris Frantsisson
Writer: Boris Barnet
Writer: Konstantin Finn
Writer: Vadim Shershenevich
Writer: Valentin Turkin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Russian (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 165 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Outskirts / The Girl with the Hatbox
Movie Review: Eye-opening comedies from the USSR
Summary: 5 Stars
As I write this the DVD is not out yet, but I have seen both films theatrically and am confident that preservationist David Shepard will bring them to DVD in fine form. Shepard has brought out several releases which would change anyone's preconception of heavyhanded, doctrinaire Soviet cinema, and this pair ranks with the remarkable comedy Bed and Sofa (also highly recommended) and establishes the little-known-outside-Russia Barnet as sort of the Billy Wilder of Soviet cinema, a cynical yet warm and funny observer of society and character with a great eye for the telling comic detail. Outskirts is an early talkie comedy, and the rougher but also the more adventurous of the two, a series of quick sketches of life in some nowhere burg as World War I breaks out a long ways away. Officially, it's set before the Revolution, and thus the cynical attitudes on display are directed at the old regime, but it's hard not to see it as a plea from the Russian peasantry for the outside world (ie Moscow and the Party) to stop messing with their lives and just let them live and let live. The Girl With a Hatbox is a late silent and a much more fluid, absolutely delightful romantic comedy starring the much-maligned Anna Sten (victim of an unfortunate attempt by Sam Goldwyn to turn her into the next Garbo; he turned her into a Pia Zadora-like punchline instead, but as this film proves, in her native language she's quite charming and lovely).
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