Arsenal
1929, NR, 92 min.
Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Semyon Svashenko.

The current AFS program is devoted to the films of this great Russian visual stylist. Arsenal is one of Dovshenko’s most famous films. It was a commissioned work that centers on the 1918 battle between the workers at a Kiev munitions plant and the White Russian troops. It’s anti-war sentiments are strikingly apparent. The silent movie will be accompanied by a live musical score.

This article appears in August 30 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.