Stanislav Iosifovich Rostotsky was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1974.
Stanislav Rostotsky
Bezhin Meadow is a 1937 Soviet propaganda film, famous for having been suppressed and believed destroyed before its completion. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, it tells the story of a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. The film draws its title from a story by Ivan Turgenev, but is based on the life story of Pavlik Morozov, a young Russian boy who became a political martyr following his death in 1932, after he supposedly denounced his father to Soviet government authorities and subsequently died at the hands of his family. Pavlik Morozov was immortalized in school programs, poetry, music, and film.
Bezhin Meadow
Ivan Turgenev, 1872
Pavlik Morozov, 1932
Boris Shumyatsky, 1924