Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931 Erich Engels & Fyodor Otsep)

Not quite what Dave Godin had led me to expect but for its year was a remarkably agile sound film rather contradicting Powell's lament that sound killed the art of the motion picture. I personally couldn't see the influences it might have had on Citizen Kane, which for me is a marvellous box of tricks, and its style seems very Soviet, particularly the dazzling horse chase sequence. Directed by a German and a Russian and featuring Anna Sten. According to Mr. Godin, Bernard Herrmann most admired the film for its creative music score.