A great film or book always has certain characteristics. ... All of this has to do with the specifics events in World War II, and the reactions of the people, or filmmakers, that followed. ... While the men knew what they were doing, they may have been so terrified of Hitler that they decided they had no choice but to follow orders. ... This may have been a point to be shown countless times in both film and fiction. ... This could be the reason for the showing of the guilt in the Italian film. ...

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For example, Russia's Soviet Montage Era in the 1920s dissuaded producers from the conventional ways of making films and encouraged the development of experimental filming techniques. ... During the 1920s the Russian film industry films relied heavily on editing in order to educate and entertain the masses. Most films around this time were based on the Soviet Montage Theory in which transitions between scenes did not follow the Classical Hollywood style of flowing together easily. ... Unfortunately for Vertov, who intended on filming to portray "life as it is" (Vertov), fiction ...

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