Bezhin lug

*Bezhin Lug* (*Bezhin Meadow*) was intended to be a Soviet film depicting the story of a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year’s harvest, and the son’s efforts to stop his father in order to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy’s murder and a social uprising. The project was assigned to Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, and the filming followed a similar course to his previous work, *Que Viva Mexico*, with cost overruns and excessive footage. Additionally, Eisenstein’s use of forbidden experimental film techniques angered his government superiors, who ordered the film destroyed before it was completed. All that remains are the first and last frames of each shot, preserved by Sergei Eisenstein’s wife, Pera Atasheva. A 1967 reconstruction by Naum Kleiman of the Eisenstein Museum and Sergei Yutkevich of Gosfilmofond arranged these frames in order, approximating the original film.