Lullaby (1929 film)

Lullaby is a 1929 American silent drama film directed by Boris Deutsch and starring Michael Visaroff, and Riva Segal.[1]In Lullaby there is not only a deeply realistic plot that is investigated by the director with a skilled use of light and close-up but also a sort of dream plot that lives in the interiority of the female protagonist represented through faces of demons tormenting her sleep and cubist alteration of the cityscape realized using Deutsch's paintings. In the development of the film the two planes, the real one and the dream one, merge each other and the reality for the female protagonist is one that embraces both sphere of matter and spirit. A work that ahead of its times. Only in 40s, after 14 years, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid will make similar films. Boris Deutsch decleared that "is desire was to get at the abstract reality, the realm of mental imagery and imagination, without losing of the world of reality"

Synopsis

The story of a young servant girl cradling a baby at a drunken feast in the house of russian Christians who is abused by her brutish patriarch when she fails in her purpose. But she earns the sympathy of a young musician and the patriarch in jealousy beats her. Eventually she falls in love with the musician and escapes. In the last scene we can see the couple happy together.[2]

Cast

Production

The movie was filmed in the United States and its costs, about $ 500, were sustained by Boris Deutsch.

References
  1. Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-garde, 1919-1945,Jan-Christopher Horak ยท 1995, The University of Wisconsin press
  2. The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles, 2005, David e James, University of California Press
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