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Original title: Новый Вавилон
Director: Grigori Kozintsev Leonid Trauberg
Cast: Yelena Kuzmina Pyotr Sobolevsky Sergei Gerasimov Vsevolod Pudovkin Sofia Magarill Andrei Kostrichkin
Genre: Drama History War
Premiere: 1929
Running time: 80 min
Country: Soviet Union

The New Babylon (Russian: Новый Вавилон, romanized: Novyy Vavilon alt. title: Russian: Штурм неба, romanized: Shturm neba) is a 1929 silent historical drama film written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. The film deals with the 1871 Paris Commune and the events leading to it, and follows the encounter and tragic fate of two lovers separated by the barricades of the Commune.

Composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his first film score for this movie, hurriedly writing about 90 minutes of music. In the fifth reel of the score he quotes the revolutionary anthem, "La Marseillaise" (representing the Commune), juxtaposed contrapuntally with the famous "Can-can" from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.

Footage from The New Babylon was included in Guy Debord's feature film The Society of the Spectacle (1973).

Kozintsev and Trauberg found some of their inspiration in Karl Marx's The Civil War in France and The Class Struggle in France, 1848–50.

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The New Babylon is a movie (1929) from Soviet Union. Genre: drama, history, war. Directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. Starring Yelena Kuzmina, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Sergei Gerasimov, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Sofia Magarill. Running time: 80 min.

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