Watch Cain and Artem (1930) Online

Pavel Petrov-Bytov was an enfant terrible of the highbrow Leningrad Sovkino film factory. He was notorious for his article “We Have No Soviet Filmmaking,” in which he criticized all the achievements of the Soviet avant-garde. In spite of his beliefs and his scandalous struggle with “bourgeois” and “formalist” filmmaking, Petrov-Bytov directed an aesthetically refined work, shot entirely on set with masterful chiaroscuro lighting: a perfect example of “Soviet expressionism.” Based on a Maxim Gorky story, the plot of Cain and Artem provides a wake-up call to the Russian people to overcome alcoholism and religious factionalism, as it spotlights the (many) drunken denizens of a typical village and their disregard for the Jewish shoemaker Cain. Read More

Watch Cain and Artem online. Featuring Emil Gal and Nikolai Simonov, Cain and Artem is classified as genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Russia and was released on 1930. Cain and Artem was directed by Pavel Petrov-Bytov. Read Less