FILM PROBLEMS OF SOVIET RUSSIA

BRYHER.

Published by Pool, The Riant Chateau, Switzerland, 1929

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 140. Original publisherÕs cloth binding in red, lettered gilt Black and white photographs illustrate the text, including many stills from Soviet films. Photographs chosen and titled by Kenneth MacPherson. Chapter headings include: Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Room, The Wufku, and The Socialogical Film, 1 and 11. Neat inscription on front end paper. Bryher (1894Š1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman. A major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, she used her fortune to help many struggling writers. With her lover Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and the Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei EisensteinÕs work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Hitler's Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist./The Riant Chateau was designed and built in 1913 by architect Michel Polak, for Belgian businessman Lucien Kaisin, and was considered very advanced for its time, with modern elevators and central heating, and was furnished with luxurious fittings. In its heyday, it was the meeting place for avant-garde of the cinema, frequently visited by such notables as Eisenstein, Room and Pabst and housed the headquarters of the publishers of the magazine Pool. Clean, very good. Very slight rubbing. Spine slightly faded.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FILM PROBLEMS OF SOVIET RUSSIA
• Publisher: Pool, The Riant Chateau, Switzerland
• Publication Date: 1929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Soviet Russia
  • Film/Cinema