The Seventh Companion

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June 24, 2012

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The Seventh Companion

Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy Street
Sun., June 24, 2012, 4:30 – 6 p.m.

Directed by Aleksei Guerman and Grigory Aronov. With Andrei Popov, Aleksandr Anisimov, Georgi Shtil
USSR 1967, 35mm, b/w, 89 min. Russian with English subtitles
Having co-directed The Seventh Companion with Grigory Aronov, Guerman now discounts his own involvement, citing Aronov’s more conventional approach to filmmaking. Nevertheless, the film displays the oblique approach to Soviet history that characterizes Guerman’s work. Based on the novella by Boris Lavrenev, the film unfolds during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik Revolution. A general in the tsar’s army, having been arrested by the secret police, is released into the brave new world of the Soviet Union. His apartment is now a crowded commune and, with nowhere else to turn (“The fact that you are alive is a misunderstanding,” he is told), the soldier begins a campaign to return to the battlefield.

Gazette Classification: Film
Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film Archive
Directed By: Aleksei Guerman
Cost: $9, $7 non-Harvard students, senior citizens, Harvard faculty, and staff. Free for Harvard students
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