The Soviet Story
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, steady, extreme documentary / historical, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...
Our read · The Soviet Story (2008) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded documentary · historical · latvian entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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