Review of The Stone Flower

I have rotten temper every time some Malware comes in a messes up my work I feel like blaming it on my computer.Once again, This isn't the first Russian feature in color. The first one was in the 1930's in two color process, The nightingale. The second one was the first in three color process right before this movie was made,Russian sailor. But this one was the first single strip color process. My guess it's AGFA color. It looks it cause the reds are rather orange and this is the trait. BY this time shooting feature's in color were becoming common. In 1949 a big budget epic The invasion of Berlin,would be produced in AGfa color with a screen play by the old Murderer himself Stalin, With communist propaganda. This feature has no propaganda in it.As a little boy, Danilov is learning to be a stone cutter from his grandpa,played by Mikhail Troyanovsky. Grandpa has no patients with him. The copper queen spy's on Danilov, Played by Tamara Makarova. They live in a peasant village and Granpa get's commission's from a wealthy couple in modern clothing of the period 1840's or 60's.As Danilov, played by Vladimir Druzihnikov, grows up he knows the trade better. Grandpa hasn't aged since he was a little boy. The wealthy couple ,who hasn't gotten older neither, had commissioned grandpa for a work that he hadn't done cause he's sick. Out of desperation he give's the couple a stone box created by his grandson. They are so amazed at it they commission him a vase.In the village he falls for a peasant girl,played by Yekaterina Derevschikova as Katinka but delay's wedding cause he's not satisfied with the vase. He finally gives up and decide's to marry her but after the wedding he runs off to the wood's to search for the queen of copper to help him with the vase. It ends up as a test of charity over greed. Excellent cinema color photography. the art direction is gorgeous. The direction and editing is good . The acting is great. Alesander Ptushco would make his second color film after this an anthology it wasn't common by now to produce a color film. No propaganda at all in this film. I got this at amazon.com. NTSC version/02/07, I think,2010. It wasn't AGFA color they used. It was a 3 layer process that was patented in 1944 that was used i ,The Russian Sailor before this picture was made. Whether it was Sovo color that's the question. It contains the same kind of properties as it . Which is a reddish tint dominance. Not age. 02/08/10 wrong again it was shot in the AGFA color that was seized by the Soviets from Germany in the invasion.