An adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel about post-revolutionary Russia, produced in wartime Italy and exhumed decades later with "Censored" stamped on it. The suppressed movies of an earlier generation are liable to look pretty untitillating, especially ones suppressed by totalitarian regimes. And in truth this one looks more quaint than anything else: an anti-Communist tract sweetened with a Frank Borzage-like doomed romance (secret trysts amid showers of soap flakes, soft-focus closeups, sniffling violins). You might have thought that a harsh portrait of the Soviet Union would hit the spot with a Fascist government on the opposite side of the WWII battlelines. But no. All totalitarians whatever tend to be touchy about exactly the same things. With Alida Valli and Rosanno Brazzi; directed by Goffredo Alessandrini. (1942) — Duncan Shepherd