Director: Miklos Jansco
The Red and the White is about the battle between the upstart Bolshevik forces and the tsarist White forces. In retrospect it's obvious who's who, but I spent the entire first half of The Red And The White trying to figure out who were the Red and who were the White. I suspect this is part of the point - ultimately it's not that important, as war tears apart towns, cities, and nations.
The Red and the White features a number of stunning long takes, which help keep the viewer in the moment - the camera pans around during a climactic scene, unsure what to focus on, trying to take in the entirety of the moment and failing. At one point, we see a person about to be executed, the camera moves away, and when it moves back, he's no longer there. Such must be the horrors of war.
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