Alenka Bountiful Summer

These later films by Barnet show his stylistic experiments in Alenka and ability to blend comedy and propaganda in Bountiful Summer.

Second feature start time: 8:40 pm. One of Barnet's last films, Alenka is stylistically embellished with narrative experimentation and animation. It's an intriguing chronicle of a group migrating across the Russian steppe to settle in Kazakhstan. (1961, 88 mins.)

Part propaganda and part comedy, Bountiful Summer depicts a postwar utopian commune in the Ukraine, replete with rolling wheat fields and cheerful peasant protagonists who periodically break into song and dance. (1951, 86 mins.)

This series is organized in association with Alla Verlotsky and Seagull Films.


support credits

Season support provided by the Rohauer Collection Foundation and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation.

Contemporary films, international films, and visiting filmmakers presented with support from the Ohio Arts Council.