biopics

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• Biopics/Biographical Films

X is Australia's most famous Bushranger, and, to some, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. He was born north of Melbourne to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed with the police. X had opportunities to become something in life. He was offered an apprenticeship as a stonemason, an honorable occupation at the time. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he murdered three policemen, the Colony of Victoria proclaimed him and his gang wanted outlaws. A final violent confrontation with police took place at Glenrowan. X, dressed in home-made plate metal armour and helmet, was captured and sent to trial. He was hanged for multiple murder at Melbourne Gaol in 1880. His daring and notoriety made him an iconic figure in Australian history, folk lore, literature, art and film. On March 9 2008, it was claimed that X's burial site had been found by Australian scientists. Id X and who portrayed him in a 2003 biopic.

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• Self Portrayals

• Made during the Stalinist era, when the Soviet Union was at odds with Nazi Germany, it is said Stalin directly requested that Y make a film that would warn the Soviet people of German aggression. The film contains many elements of propaganda that reflect the political situation of the 1930s, and portrays X as a fisherman and a proletarian hero. The helmets worn by the Teutonic soldiers resemble larger versions of German soldier helmets from the 20th century, while "in the first draft of the X script, swastikas even appeared in the invaders' helmets." The film also shows X making peace with the Mongols, his old enemies, in order to face the Teutonic Knights, hinting at the necessity of making peace with the Western powers to deal with Nazi Germany. This peace with an Asiatic threat is also be a reference to Stalin's policy of not escalating war with Japan because of the threat of Nazi Germany.

• Unfortunately for Y, the film explicitly mocked treaty-making with the Germans, and was released a few months before Stalin agreed to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which provided for non-aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union. The film was therefore suppressed and not shown in theaters. This changed dramatically in 1941 after the German attack on the Soviet Union, and the film began to be shown in many Soviet cinemas. Scenes from the film were also incorporated in the American propaganda film The Battle of Russia.

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