KinoPravda No 21

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Audience Score
52
KinoPravda No 21
NR 33 minDocumentaryKino-Pravda PosterPart of Kino-Pravda
Dziga Vertovdirected Soviet newsreel made to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilich Lenin 21st January 1924 1925 drawn from The Final Journey a Pravda feuilleton written on the occasion of Lenins funeral by the man who had introduced Vertov to cinema Mikhail Koltsov Contains First anniversary of Lenins death 1 Assassination attempt on Lenin and Soviet Russias progress under his leadership 2 Lenins illness death and funeral 3 The year after Lenins death
StarringVladimir LeninJoseph StalinNadezhda Krupskaya
DirectorDziga Vertov

Movie Details

Original Language:Russian
Production Companies:Kultkino Goskino USSR
Movie Tags:
short filmsilent filmrussian revolution (1917)newsreel

Kino-Pravda

Between 1922 and 1925, a total of 23 issues of Dziga Vertov’s newsreel series KINO-PRAVDA (KINO-TRUTH) appeared (albeit irregularly and in very few copies). Vertov’s goal was to create a kind of ‘screen newspaper’; the title is a tribute to the newspaper Pravda founded by Lenin. Just like the KINONEDELJA (KINO-WEEK) newsreel series (1918-19), the KINO-PRAVDA issues offer a fascinating insight into the early Soviet Union and demonstrate the rapid development of Vertov’s film language. The 22 surviving issues (No. 12 is lost) have been digitized and subtitled in German and English by the Austrian Film Museum.