Stanley Kubrick's anti-war drama starring Kirk Douglas. The movie is from the Gosfilmofond collection and will be screened on 35mm film.
A colonel tries to save his soldiers from being shot after the failure of a hopeless mission during World War I. Initially boycotted by many European countries for its uncompromising vision of war, Stanley Kubrick's pacifist drama eventually became the climax of his early career and one of the finest anti-war films in history.
Haunting Kubrick throughout his life, the subject of war is brought up in Paths of Glory with unusual maturity for a 28-year-old filmmaker, who explores it at all levels—both through the eyes of ordinary soldiers and those of military commanders. Kubrick is not so much interested in the confrontation between countries, however, as in the conflict within a particular regiment. The genre hybrid starts with a technically virtuoso, almost documentary battle scene filmed in the trenches before transforming into a tense legal drama.
In Paths of Glory, Kubrick tested many of his signature tricks, including hypnotic single-frame shooting and multiple takes, to achieve the most authentic result. The film helped him gain more prominence in Hollywood and was the catalyst for further collaboration with the legendary Kirk Douglas, who would produce and star in Kubrick's next feature, the historical epic drama Spartacus (1960).
The film will be screened in English with Russian subtitles.
Paths of Glory
Dir. Stanley Kubrick
USA, 1957. 88 min. 12+