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3 unusual facts about Bezhin Meadow


Boris Shumyatsky

It was Shumyatsky who had to ultimately give approval for Eisenstein to make Bezhin Meadow, the failure of which was a major factor in Shumyatsky's downfall.

Jay Leyda

He participated in the filming of Eisenstein's lost film Bezhin Meadow (1935–37).

Pavlik Morozov

Morozov's story was the basis of Bezhin Meadow, an unreleased film from 1937 that was directed by Sergei Eisenstein.


Ivan Turgenev

One of the stories in A Sportsman's Sketches, known as "Bezhin Lea" or "Byezhin Prairie", was later to become the basis for the controversial film Bezhin Meadow (1937) – directed by Sergei Eisenstein.


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