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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: [[NiceGuy Shilov]] is sanguine, [[TheStoic Sarichev]] is phlegmatic, Zabelin is choleric, and short-spoken Kungurov is melancholic
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* Fauxreigner: The Tatar bandit Kaioum is played by the Russian Jew (and heir to a dynasty of theatrical actors) Konstantin Raikin.
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* MonochromePast: The opening scene, where the five buddies are celebrating the end of the civil war, is shot in a sepia tone. This contrasts to all the present-day shots in black and white (see ArtShift above), which are not tinted sepia.
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* MonochromePast: The opening scene, where the five buddies are celebrating the end of the civil war, revolution, is shot in a sepia tone. This contrasts to all the present-day shots in black and white (see ArtShift above), which are not tinted sepia.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Kaioum, a darker-skinned man who looks like he's from one of Russia's Central Asian areas, speaks in broken Russian throughout.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Kaioum, a darker-skinned man who looks like he's from one of Russia's Central Asian areas, speaks in broken Russian throughout.throughout.
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* MatchCut: Sarichev has just received word that Shilov's brother, who has been fighting for the other side, has been killed in combat. He absorbs this while checking himself in a mirror in a dark hallway, then turns--and now he's in the banquet room next to that hallway obviously much later, as the attendees are debating what to do about Shilov.
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* SeamlessScenery: Sarichev has just received word that Shilov's brother, who has been fighting for the other side, has been killed in combat. He absorbs this while checking himself in a mirror in a dark hallway, then turns--and now he's in the banquet room next to that hallway obviously much later, as the attendees are debating what to do about Shilov.
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In a small town somewhere not far from a border, five old friends--Shilov, Sarichev, Kungorov, Zabelin and Lipyagin--are Cheka members and veterans of the Civil War. Sarichev, the local Communist Party leader, issues orders to send all the gold they've confiscated, a whopping 500,000 rubles, on a special train to Moscow. Soon afterwards Shilov is murdered, but the mission goes forth regardless.
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In a small town somewhere not far from a border, five old friends--Shilov, Sarichev, Kungorov, Zabelin and Lipyagin--are Cheka members and veterans of the Civil War. Sarichev, the local Communist Party leader, issues orders to send all the gold they've confiscated, a whopping 500,000 rubles, on a special train to Moscow. Shilov, his most dependable man, is given command of the mission. Soon afterwards Shilov is murdered, but the mission goes forth regardless.
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''At Home Among Strangers'' is a 1974 film from the Soviet Union directed by Creator/NikitaMikhalkov.
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''At Home Among Strangers'' is a 1974 film from the Soviet Union directed by Creator/NikitaMikhalkov.
Creator/NikitaMikhalkov. Music/EduardArtemyev composed the music.
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It is 1920-ish in the Soviet Union. The Russian Civil War has been won, with the victory of the Bolsheviks and the defeat of the anti-Communist Whites, but things are far from settled in a Russia that is just emerging from revolution and war. The central command in Moscow, desperate to buy food to feed a starving country, sends orders out to the various Cheka units to send confiscated gold to Moscow. (The Cheka is the original Soviet secret police.)
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It is 1920-ish in the Soviet Union. The Russian Civil War has been won, with the victory of the Bolsheviks and the defeat of the anti-Communist Whites, but things are far from settled in a Russia that is just emerging from revolution and war.war, with leftover White Russian bands still roaming the interior. The central command in Moscow, desperate to buy food to feed a starving country, sends orders out to the various Cheka units to send confiscated gold to Moscow. (The Cheka is the original Soviet secret police.)
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* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: A gang of assassins swoops down on a train and steals a Cheka gold shipment, only to be surprised by a group of White Russian bandits who ''also'' swoop down on the train in order to rob it.
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* TheWestern: One of the most famous examples of the "Ostern", namely, a film set in communist Eastern Europe that still conformed to the basic tropes of a Western. Specifically, this one's got bandits robbing a train in order to steal a shipment of gold.
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%%* IOweYouMyLife: "You save my life. Now, you my brother."
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* TheInfiltration: Shilov pretends to join Brylov's bandits in order to find out where the gold is.
* IOweYouMyLife: Kaioum tried to kill Shilov, but after Kaioum falls into a raging river and Shilov pulls him out, Kaioum says "You save my life. Now, you my brother.
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* TheKillerWasLeftHanded: The coroner notes that before Vanukin was murdered, he was struck hard on the right side of his face, implying a left-handed murderer. Sarichev tests Kungorov by tossing him a box of matches--Kungorov catches them with his right hand. Later, Nikodimov catches the pack of matches with his left hand. Of course by that point Sarichev has already figured out that Nikodimov is an impostor who killed the real Nikodimov and assumed his identity in order to infiltrate the Cheka.
* MacGuffin: The 500,000 rubles in gold, which are really only there to give characters something to fight about.
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* MeadowRun: An all-male and faintly homoerotic example. Sarichev and all the local commies are pulling up their camp and leaving. They are on their way when Shilov stumbles out of the forest and into their vicinity, having retrieved the gold. A joyful Sarichev and Mylnakov dash through the meadow to hug him, and the film ends.
* TheMole: Nikodimov, who isn't even Nikodimov--he killed the real Nikodimov and took his identity.
* MonochromePast: The opening scene, where the five buddies are celebrating the end of the civil war, is shot in a sepia tone. This contrasts to all the present-day shots in black and white (see ArtShift above), which are not tinted sepia.
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''At Home Among Strangers'' is a 1974 film from the Soviet Union directed by Creator/NikitaMikhalkov.
It is 1920-ish in the Soviet Union. The Russian Civil War has been won, with the victory of the Bolsheviks and the defeat of the anti-Communist Whites, but things are far from settled in a Russia that is just emerging from revolution and war. The central command in Moscow, desperate to buy food to feed a starving country, sends orders out to the various Cheka units to send confiscated gold to Moscow. (The Cheka is the original Soviet secret police.)
In a small town somewhere not far from a border, five old friends--Shilov, Sarichev, Kungorov, Zabelin and Lipyagin--are Cheka members and veterans of the Civil War. Sarichev, the local Communist Party leader, issues orders to send all the gold they've confiscated, a whopping 500,000 rubles, on a special train to Moscow. Soon afterwards Shilov is murdered, but the mission goes forth regardless.
The Cheka men go on the train to Moscow but are attacked by assassins led by a man named Lemke, who kill them and steal the gold. Lemke and his buddies hop another train, which is promptly attacked by an entirely different group of thieves, a band of White Russian bandits led by a fellow named Brylov (played by Nikita Mikhalkov). All of Lemke's buddies are killed in the raid and the gold disappears, so Lemke pretends to join Brylov's band, so he can find the gold. Meanwhile, Shilov turns up very much alive, the corpse previously discovered having actually been someone else. Shilov being alive, and having once been in charge of the gold shipment, the suspicion falls on him. In order to both clear his name and recover the gold, Shilov ''also'' pretends to join Brylov's gang of bandits.
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* ArtShift: Most of the film is in color, but some segments, most notably the whole scene where the assassins board the train and steal the gold, is in black and white. Reportedly Mosfilm gave Nikita Mikhalkov only 5000m of color film stock. So to make sure it counted, he filmed some of the more difficult sequences, like the train robbery, in black and white.
* EpicTrackingShot: A long and very impressive tracking shot follows Sarichev as he rapidly stalks through the narrow hallways of a building to the room where Shilov's (fake) corpse is being held.
* GrayRainOfDepression: Rain pours, in a scene where Shilov has been arrested by his old friends, who believe that he betrayed them and stole the gold.
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%%* TheInfiltration
%%* IOweYouMyLife: "You save my life. Now, you my brother."
%%* TheKillerWasLeftHanded
%%* MacGuffin
* MaliciousMisnaming: One of the assassins who is waiting to rob the train insists on calling Vanukin the switchman "Fannyackov".
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%%* TheMole
%%* MonochromePast
%%* TheRemnant
%%* TrainJob
* YouNoTakeCandle: Kaioum, a darker-skinned man who looks like he's from one of Russia's Central Asian areas, speaks in broken Russian throughout.
It is 1920-ish in the Soviet Union. The Russian Civil War has been won, with the victory of the Bolsheviks and the defeat of the anti-Communist Whites, but things are far from settled in a Russia that is just emerging from revolution and war. The central command in Moscow, desperate to buy food to feed a starving country, sends orders out to the various Cheka units to send confiscated gold to Moscow. (The Cheka is the original Soviet secret police.)
In a small town somewhere not far from a border, five old friends--Shilov, Sarichev, Kungorov, Zabelin and Lipyagin--are Cheka members and veterans of the Civil War. Sarichev, the local Communist Party leader, issues orders to send all the gold they've confiscated, a whopping 500,000 rubles, on a special train to Moscow. Soon afterwards Shilov is murdered, but the mission goes forth regardless.
The Cheka men go on the train to Moscow but are attacked by assassins led by a man named Lemke, who kill them and steal the gold. Lemke and his buddies hop another train, which is promptly attacked by an entirely different group of thieves, a band of White Russian bandits led by a fellow named Brylov (played by Nikita Mikhalkov). All of Lemke's buddies are killed in the raid and the gold disappears, so Lemke pretends to join Brylov's band, so he can find the gold. Meanwhile, Shilov turns up very much alive, the corpse previously discovered having actually been someone else. Shilov being alive, and having once been in charge of the gold shipment, the suspicion falls on him. In order to both clear his name and recover the gold, Shilov ''also'' pretends to join Brylov's gang of bandits.
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* ArtShift: Most of the film is in color, but some segments, most notably the whole scene where the assassins board the train and steal the gold, is in black and white. Reportedly Mosfilm gave Nikita Mikhalkov only 5000m of color film stock. So to make sure it counted, he filmed some of the more difficult sequences, like the train robbery, in black and white.
* EpicTrackingShot: A long and very impressive tracking shot follows Sarichev as he rapidly stalks through the narrow hallways of a building to the room where Shilov's (fake) corpse is being held.
* GrayRainOfDepression: Rain pours, in a scene where Shilov has been arrested by his old friends, who believe that he betrayed them and stole the gold.
%%* ImagineSpot
%%* TheInfiltration
%%* IOweYouMyLife: "You save my life. Now, you my brother."
%%* TheKillerWasLeftHanded
%%* MacGuffin
* MaliciousMisnaming: One of the assassins who is waiting to rob the train insists on calling Vanukin the switchman "Fannyackov".
%%* MeadowRun
%%* TheMole
%%* MonochromePast
%%* TheRemnant
%%* TrainJob
* YouNoTakeCandle: Kaioum, a darker-skinned man who looks like he's from one of Russia's Central Asian areas, speaks in broken Russian throughout.