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also known as Ave Mariya
Ave Maria1972
Ivan Ivanov-Vano’s condemnation of the American war in Vietnam trades in some of the crude images one associates with Soviet propaganda: a soldier gunning down a child; clamoring capitalists superimposed over the killing fields. And yet its animation style is surprisingly subtle and its tone more elegiac than one might expect. Set to Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” the film uses Christian imagery to underline the suffering inflicted by the American war machine. Interestingly, Ivanov-Vano compliments Vietnamese casualties with American civilians mourning their dead and protesting their government.
Member Reviews (5)
top reviewer
This is powerful film making. If only we in the US had the distance from ourselves to be with what this is saying.
Stunning
Today in 2015, Russia is still telling the West to stop killing brown people.
Almost 5 stars -- the Vietnam era was a horror. . .
Haunting, beautiful, and crude.