Archetypical Visualization Of Childhood In The Cinomythology Of A Soviet Man

Abstract

After the Great Patriotic War, Soviet society begins to rethink its own social values, transforming them according to the new geopolitical reality. Post-war cinematography was one of the most influential instruments of such a change. The revision of pre-war and military film plots made it possible to discover a new subject field for visualizing the Soviet man mythology. Soviet childhood, as a necessary stage in forming the Soviet man’s worldview, is becoming such a space. The theme of childhood in the plot palette of Soviet cinema finally approves the motive of the artistic depiction of people’s everyday life, which makes it possible to focus on visualizing the processes of the formation of movie heroes’ individual feelings and thoughts. References to the early periods of his biography make it possible to reconstruct and visualize the existential drama of a Soviet man more fully. Therefore, the prerequisites for learning of individual experience have been created as a condition for the forming the relevant memory of Soviet generations, which were unusually productively used by the communist ideology. This practice has an undoubted psychoanalytic value and serves as the basis for a person’s internal dialogue with oneself and the whole society. Despite the obvious political engagement of the post-war Soviet cinematography, one managed to comply with the archetypal models of classical mythologies as much as possible and maintain the proper level of sacredness in society.