commissar

Fri Feb 16 20:56:02 UTC 2001

Dear Colleagues:

At the beginning of Askoldov's *Commissar* is a message: "Materialy etogo
fil'ma, sniatogo v 1967 godu, byli sokhraneny sotrudnikami Gosfil'mofonda
SSSR...." I have found various references in film histories to exactly what
this might have meant. The extremes are that the film was simply shelved
intact for 21 years and then released, or that the film was actually
destroyed and then reconstructed from the footage "saved" by the archivists
mentioned in the above quotation. Can anyone point me to a documented and
accurate history of this episode?

Russell.

Russell Valentino
Associate Professor
Department of Russian
University of Iowa
tel 319 353-2193
fax 319 353-2424
russell-valentino at uiowa.edu

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