Herself
In the early years of cinema, editors were usually women. This short documentary looks at how they wielded power, and how their work was made invisible.
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March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze in solemn grief. The country escorts its father and leader, Joseph Stalin.
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This riveting Russian documentary takes you inside the trials of the notorious German war criminals, brought to trial to account for their actions. The footage includes excerpts from the trials of many of the senior Nazis including Goebels and Goring.
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Documentary on the fall of the nazi Germany's capital, Berlin, edited and directed by the soviet filmmaker Yelizaveta Svilova
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Russian documentary about the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Russian documentary about the liberation of Auschwitz.
Director
From the start, Vertov made himself known as an irreconcilable enemy of “acted films,” which he regarded as a violation of truth. At the peak of World War II, however, such lofty artistic principles proved impractical. Vertov’s poetic and patriotic For You, Front! is a fiction film with a script and two actors. In a letter to her fiancé, a soldier on the front, Saule asks if there is anything he needs from “our beloved Kazakhstan.” Yes there is, he replies: lead, which can be used to make bullets to kill the enemies of “our beloved country.”
Assistant Director
The film is about the life and work of Grigory Ordzhonikidze Konstantinoviche, an important personality in both the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The film includes speeches by his bereaved friends who attended his funeral. In 1937, after the unexpected death of Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Vertov received an urgent order from the government to produce a film about the life of Ordzhonikidze. He was ordered to work together with Yakov Bliohom and the director of the film "Battleship Potemkin" distributed by Goskino (Soviet State Committee for Cinematography).
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Assistant Director
Sobre el tema de tres canciones populares inspiradas por Lenín, Vertov nos muestra un panorama de Rusia a comienzos de los años 30 en diferentes regiones europeas y asiáticas.
Assistant Director
Para su primer filme sonoro, Vertov tenía un propósito radical: explorar el sonido directo y sus posibilidades expresivas como nadie lo había hecho. Entuziazm es una obra única en la que los sonidos (en particular los industriales) dialogan con voces y músicas.
Editor
El Hombre con la Cámara, muy en la línea de "Berlín, sinfonía de una gran ciudad" (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt, 1927), es un retrato de San Petersburgo compuesto por cientos de pinceladas fílmicas sobre la vida cotidiana en dicha ciudad. Podría decirse que se trata de un retrato puntillista en el que sólo la totalidad de los breves retazos permiten percibir San Petersburgo en su totalidad. Con la complicidad de su hermano, el operador Mikhail Kaufman, Vertov, fiel a su teorías, no permite ni por un momento que se pueda suponer que alguno de esos retazos pueda imaginarse inventado. Por ello en el vertiginoso montaje que plasma la fascinación de Vertov por el constructivismo y el futurismo, introduce constantemente imágenes del operador que con su cámara está filmando la realidad que le rodea.
Assistant Director
The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution.
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Soviet travelouge
Assistant Director
Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on cultural and economic diversity, the film is in fact a call for unification in order to build a "complete socialist society".
Assistant Editor
Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on cultural and economic diversity, the film is in fact a call for unification in order to build a "complete socialist society".
Assistant Director
Commissioned by the Moscow Soviet as a documentary and information film for the citizens of Moscow prior to municipal elections, film is a tableau of Soviet life and achievements in the period of reconstruction following the Civil War of 1917-1921.
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: First anniversary of Lenin's death / Smycka of the city and the village: group of peasants visit Moscow / Lenin's effect on peasants and oppressed nations
Editor
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand bills, exhorting all to "buy from the cooperative" as opposed to the Public Sector, promoting temperance, and helping poor widows. Experimental portions of the film, projected in reverse, feature the un-slaughtering of a bull and the un-baking of bread.
Editor
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Hunger and harvest / Alliance between city and country / Agricultural and home industries exhibition: To the exhibition, construction work and preparations, exhibits, map of the exhibition, visitors
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Profintern.
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Rebuilding of the destroyed Siberian village of Taseevo / Railroad station Sljudjanka / Abandoned mica pits near Lake Baikal / Soči health resort / Chudjakovskij-Park / Beach near Tuapse / The loading of silk / Afghanistan, Kabul / Peacetime use of tanks / Mountain road / Chapel in the Caucasus.
