Horizon
About Horizon
Lyova Horizon, a Jewish youth, leaves tsarist Russia for New York hoping to rise, and is disappointed. In 1919 he comes back as a soldier in the American army and goes over to the Red side.
Cast & crew
More about Horizon
Lev Kuleshov directed and wrote the script with Georgy Munblit and Viktor Shklovsky. Ivan Nikitchenko designed the sets. Ksenia Blinova and K. Skomorovskaya edited. Produced by F. Akimov, N. Alekseev, and A. Kapustyansky. Mezhrabpom-Film. A listed release date is 10 November 1932. A Moscow premiere on 30 January 1933 is also recorded.
Themes
Background
The return is set in 1919, when American troops were in Russia, and the soldier changes sides.
Making
Kuleshov and Shklovsky built the script around a name that is also the title.
Look
Konstantin Kuznetsov photographed it.
Music
David Blok wrote the music.
Notes
- Nikolai Batalov plays Lev Abramovich Horizon. Yelena Kuzmina plays Rose, Isaak's daughter. Mikhail Doronin plays uncle Isaak Horizon.
- Sergey Komarov plays a subofficer, an American policeman, and a priest. Mikhail Doller plays Smith. Konstantin Khokhlov plays a manufacturer.
- Nikolai Kryuchkov appears as a partisan. Dmitriy Kara-Dmitriev plays a watchmaker.
Scenes
- Lyova leaves for America and finds New York is not the rise he expected.
- He comes back in an American uniform in 1919 and crosses to the Red Army.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1932 Горизонт.webm)
