Arsenal (film)

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Arsenal (Russian and Ukrainian: Арсенал), (1928), is a Soviet film by Ukrainian director Olexandr Dovzhenko. Regarded by film scholar Vance Kepley, Jr. as "one of the few Soviet political films which seems even to cast doubt on the morality of violent retribution." This second film in Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy" (along with Zvenigora and Earth) was originally commissioned as a feature that would glorify the battle in 1918 between Bolshevik workers at a Kiev munitions plant and White Russian troops. Dovzhenko's eye for wartime absurdities (for example, an attack on an empty trench) anticipates later antiwar sentiments in films by Jean Renoir and Stanley Kubrick.

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