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The title character in "The Guard" ("Karaul"), Aleksandr Rogoschkin's dark new Soviet film, is Iveren, a young soldier who has the delicate handsomeness associated with the idealized 19th-century romantic poet. He seems, however, to live beyond hope, in self-imposed exile.
He never smiles. His soul has become clenched.
Recently assigned to a train that transports prisoners to labor camps, Iveren endures his crude new comrades with distaste. He does what they ask. Nothing more.
He finds no humor in their jokes, and refuses to cooperate in their mindless, obligatory hazing of him. In his crack-up the ferocious ordinariness of a political system is exposed.
"The Guard" will be shown today at 12:15 P.M. and tomorrow at 6 P.M. as part of the New Directors/New Films series.
Though the pinched, unhappy Iveren can be seen as a figure of the post-Communist imagination, his despair has its roots in pre-revolutionary Russian literature, that of Dostoyevsky among others. Yet now there is nothing grand or transforming about despair, only the fury within, which is one more toll taken.
"The Guard," written by Ivan Loschilin and directed by Mr. Rogoschkin, who was born in 1949, has the density of pent-up feelings expressed in a sudden rush, like Iveren's. Unlike Iveren, though, Mr. Rogoschkin hangs onto his wits. To View The Full HD : Free movies to watch online
Watch The Guard Movie Online
The title character in "The Guard" ("Karaul"), Aleksandr Rogoschkin's dark new Soviet film, is Iveren, a young soldier who has the delicate handsomeness associated with the idealized 19th-century romantic poet. He seems, however, to live beyond hope, in self-imposed exile.
He never smiles. His soul has become clenched.
Recently assigned to a train that transports prisoners to labor camps, Iveren endures his crude new comrades with distaste. He does what they ask. Nothing more.
He finds no humor in their jokes, and refuses to cooperate in their mindless, obligatory hazing of him. In his crack-up the ferocious ordinariness of a political system is exposed.
"The Guard" will be shown today at 12:15 P.M. and tomorrow at 6 P.M. as part of the New Directors/New Films series.
Though the pinched, unhappy Iveren can be seen as a figure of the post-Communist imagination, his despair has its roots in pre-revolutionary Russian literature, that of Dostoyevsky among others. Yet now there is nothing grand or transforming about despair, only the fury within, which is one more toll taken.
"The Guard," written by Ivan Loschilin and directed by Mr. Rogoschkin, who was born in 1949, has the density of pent-up feelings expressed in a sudden rush, like Iveren's. Unlike Iveren, though, Mr. Rogoschkin hangs onto his wits. To View The Full HD : Free movies to watch online
