Post-revolutionary Russia was a period of extraordinary social and cultural experiment, and here Burch focuses on the sexual politics of the Soviet cinema. Includes obscure films like The House on Trubnaya Square by Boris Barnet, Ermler's Katka's Apples and Remnants of an Empire, Vertov's Kino-Eye and Kozintsev and Trauberg's The Devil Wheel in a unique look at a great era of cinema in a climate of virulent change.