Combination of courage and generosity

Saeed Aqiqi

“A Russian Youth”, the second film of Alexander Zolotukhin is
astonishing in many aspects. The films is a strange and pleasant experience of observing the “post-formalism” traces of new generation of Russian cinema, in a period when discussion of continuity of cinematic thoughts is defined in history of the cinema industry and often is limited
in the range of ultra-technological Hollywood structure.It seems that the filmmaker has been properly trained to reproducea formalist cinema of the Lenin period. Its disregard forthe story and staying within the limits of plot is as reasonableand logical as the works of Daudenco, Vetf and Eisenstein.The key to comprehend the film is presented to its viewers from the beginning,without any concealment.The film tries to create a link between the concepts of “seeing”and “hearing”, through the alignment of cinema and music, and understanding what the Russian formalist cinema was seeking.The movie also enjoys a musical link of Rachmaninoff (a fledged composer of Bolshevism) and the Russian laboratory school of thought in 2019, thanks to utilizing Bertolt Brecht’s gamesmanships.This Russian film also presents a combination of courage and open-mindedness to its viewers.