Three Songs of Lenin (1934)
Also known as Three Songs About Lenin
1934 · Feature film · 58 min · dir. Dziga Vertov
- Documentary
Synopsis
This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Dziga Vertov
- Writer
- Dziga Vertov
- Cinematography
- Dmitri Surensky
- Studio
- Mezhrabpomfilm
- Released
- 1934-11-06
- Original title
- Три песни о Ленине
- Running time
- 58 minutes
- Language
- Russian
- Collection
- Feature Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- three
- song
- lenin
- soviet
- union
- socialism
- communism
Cast & crew
Dziga Vertov Director
Dolores Ibárruri
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Dziga Vertov's ode to Lenin · kill bill 2 · 2013-12-07
This film was done under Stalin and is heavily tainted by it's propagandic (yes, I invented the word)message: the grandeur of Lenin. Many directors suffered under Stalin, even the greatest: Eisenstein, had to end his career after the wrath of Stalin provoked by "Ivan the Terrible" seen as a veiled denunciation of Stalin. Dziga Vertov offers here a masterpiece, amazing montage, pace and hybridation (another new creation of mine) of silent and sound film: the sequence with the Soviet Union stopped in motion by Lenin's death is as haunting as it is amazing... Stalin's regime hasn't wounded his…