Romance sentimentale
1930 film
- 12 September 1930 (1930-09-12)
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Romance sentimentale is a 1930 French film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein. The film is also known as Sentimental Romance (International English title).
Synopsis
The film opens with a montage of scenes of elemental violence—crashing waves and falling trees alternate with images of trees speeding past as if viewed from a motorcar. The imagery gradually changes to more tranquil vistas of clouds, grass swaying in a breeze, and rippling water. The first interior shot shows a woman silhouetted against a window. There are several shots of a fireplace and of clocks and their pendulums. The woman moves from the window to a piano, and begins singing a Russian song. Partway through her song, she is surrounded by starbursts and the dark, indoor setting of the scene is replaced by radiant clouds. Images of swans are intercut with images of Rodin sculptures. Eventually the indoor setting returns and rain is seen falling against the night sky. After an interval, the sun is shown moving through the sky, and the singer finishes her song as flowering nature reappears.
Cast
- Mara Griy as The singer
External links
- Romance sentimentale at IMDb
- Romance sentimentale is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
- Jolly Fellows (1934)
- Circus (1936)
- Volga-Volga (1938)
- A Family (1943)
- Tanya (1940)
- Fighting Film Collection #4 [ru] (1941)
- Springtime (1947)
- Encounter at the Elbe (1949)
- The Composer Glinka (1952)
- Russian Souvenir (1960)
- Starling and Lyre [ru] (1974)
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928)1
- The General Line (1929)1
- Romance sentimentale (1930)2
- ¡Que viva México! (1932)1
Notes:1 — mostly by Eisenstein; 2 — mostly by Aleksandrov.
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