This weekend I watched "Battleship Potemkin" (1925) and "100 Days Before the Command" (1990). The former was showed mistreatment of sailors in Tsarist Russia, and the latter portrayed brutality in the Soviet Army. The latter was banned when it was made. The former has a well defined plot, the latter is very abstract. The roles in "100 Days before the command were played mostly by soldiers. In that film there is a lot of male to male tenderness being shown. There is a scene where the soldiers are bathing each other. One of the early scenes shows an officer coming into the barracks drunk. He urinates on a sleeping officer. During the film soldiers die but none from the result of violent acts. There is a scene where a female swims nude in a pool. I am not sure why this scene is included. I can understand the tenderness between the soldiers. It is a way of protecting each other from a brutel situation.
Soon I will watch a couple of films by the Polish director Wiktor Grodecki. "Mandragora" which is in Czech and "Insatiability" which is in Polish. The former deals with teenage prostitution in Prague,and the latter is a satire.
I have a lot of films I want to watch again but not much time in which to watch them, oh well.
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