And today the tape will make a huge impression.
Soviet television did not indulge viewers with Hollywood films. It wasn’t until the early 1970s that the censors made an exception and showed an American-made film for the first time. It was the tape “Hunted horses are shot, isn’t it?”.
Directed by Sydney Pollack. The plot of the film takes place during the Great Depression. A dance marathon is held in the city, which promises the winners one and a half thousand dollars. Participants are the poor population, exhausted by hopeless poverty. The organizers of the competition offer them seven meals a day, and viewers sometimes throw money at the dancers’ feet.
This is what lured the unfortunate and starving participants to the marathon.
It is not clear how the censors allowed such an acutely social film to reach Soviet citizens. But the reason is simple. The fact is that Pollack’s painting shows American life from the most unattractive side: people are fighting for a piece of bread and are ready to give all their strength for this. So such a story about the United States was only in the hands of Soviet officials.
