Cinematheque: Aleksei Guerman

Directed by Aleksei Guerman, Soviet Union, 1967, 35mm, 89 min. Guerman’s first feature was co-directed with the more established Griogori Aronov, to whom he ceded more control. Nevertheless, Guerman’s oblique view of history and rough wartime humanism are on full display in this vision of the Russian civil war. Imprisoned by revolutionary forces, a bourgeois general is cleared of his crimes and released, only to find his apartment has turned into a crowded commune. Subtitled.