新巴比伦 (1929)

　　1929苏联剧情历史片《新巴比伦》由格里高利·柯静采夫导演，David Gutman主演，影片讲述的是：
The New Babylon is a metaphorical clash of glittering surfaces and deep social cynicism that marked the climax of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Traubergs experimentations with the conventions of the Soviet silent cinema Taking their thematic inspiration from the story of the Paris Commune of 1871 the two directors fashioned a highly conceptualized allegory of social strata under pressure that transcends its historical roots to form a sardonic comment on the human condition
The music by Dimitry Shostakovitch is also integral to the films narrative structure Normally in film the music serves to compliment or amplify the visual image The relationship is one of conjunction In The New Babylon however Shostakovitch creates a relationship through the opposition of sound and image In the music hall scene for example the composer interfaces components of the cancan and the Marseillaise with the vulgar spectacle of the pageant to form a musical comment on the French middle class
Although the avantgarde aspects of The New Babylon caused it to fall somewhat in disfavor during the regime of Josef Stalin it is precisely those elements that cause it to remain of interest today Although ranking somewhat below the pioneering efforts of Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin whose theories greatly influenced its creation The New Babylon still represents an innovative use of the cinema and one of the highpoints of the Soviet silent cinema