Evgenii Bauer, at the end of his brief career had reached such level of intensity, precision in the "mise en scene", that every frame of this moving film is a masterpiece. Because Bauer seems a director from the 30's or 40's that one day decided to do again that old silent movies in which images revealed a passion and some kind of mystery unknown in the films made by his contemporaries. 25 or maybe 35 years of evolution of cinema are contained in only five years, since his early works to this jewel (and "For luck" or "A life for a life"), great achievements of one the three best directors of the decade, along with Louis Feuillade and perhaps Demille
Review of Revolyutsioner
