The New Moscow

Name: The New Moscow
Director: Aleksandr Medvedkin
Genre: Science Fiction, Comedy
Released: 1938
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Cast: Daniil Sagal, Nina Alisova, Mariya Barabanova, Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina, Pavel Sukhanov

1938 Science Fiction Comedy 100 minutes Directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin

About The New Moscow

Alyosha, a young architect, wins a competition with plans for a new Moscow of skyscrapers, elevated roads, and mechanized housing. The picture was banned and shelved.

Cast & crew

More about The New Moscow

Aleksandr Medvedkin directed it, with Aleksandr Olenin also credited. Medvedkin wrote it. Igor Gelein photographed it. Vladimir Yurovsky wrote the music. Mosfilm made it in 1938. It runs 100 minutes. Daniil Sagal, Nina Alisova, Pavel Sukhanov, and Mariya Barabanova are billed. Joseph Stalin banned it from release. The Russian title is Новая Москва.

Themes

A competition for a future city
Plans the censors hated
A film that was shelved
Medvedkin
Alyosha
Moscow
Stalin
Mosfilm

Making

The comedy was finished and then withheld. Stalin banned it.

Look

Igor Gelein photographed the model of the future city and Alyosha's plans.

Music

Vladimir Yurovsky wrote the music.

Notes

Sagal plays the young architect.
The designs include towers, roads in the air, and housing run by machines.
It did not get a normal 1938 release.

Scenes

Alyosha's wild plan wins the competition.
The finished comedy is pulled from release.

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (1938 Новая Москва.webm)