It’s tempting to label as Russian fanaticism the evening’s unsavory human pageant of deceitful motivations, diabolical behavior, and grisly revenge. Yet, those fleeing Lincoln Center may have woken the following morning, as did this viewer, recognizing in the behemoth project a startlingly relevant and disturbing mirror of our own civilization – and an art work of disquieting universality. [...]


eisenstadt,
gered mankowitz, photog, 1967





“the red danube” (1949)


