A History of Russian Cinema. The Birth of the Myth.

Synopsis

A two part documentary about the first five decades of Russian cinema: from its birth to 1953 - the death of Stalin and the first seedlings of the thaw. The film covers the most important milestones of cinema. Its introduction as a lowbrow entertainment, the impact of WWI and revolutions on the film process. The principal masters - Kuleshov, Vertov, Eisenstein - and their discoveries in film language at the turn of the 1920-30s. The arrival of sound. The evacuation of the Soviet film industry during WWII and the heroic work of the wartime documentary crews. Restricted film production and early signs of the thaw in the late 1940s - early 1950s. Film historians and art critics, directors and screenwriters put the history of cinema in a broader context, considering the path that the country took from Tsarist Russia to the totalitarian state under the rule of Stalin.

Main Cast

Zara Abdullayeva

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Alexey Aygi

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Anton Dolin

Age : 48 | Popularity : 3%

Tamara Eidelman

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Evgeny Gindilis

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Nikolai Izvolov

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Nikolai Kulikov

Age : 44 | Popularity : 4%

Georgy Molodtsov

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Vladimir Kocharyan
Writing	Writer	Vladimir Kocharyan Anna Zakrevskaya Svetlana Matyushina Natalya Ryabchikova
	Script Editor	Natalya Ryabchikova Stanislav Dedinskiy
Sound	Music	Alexey Aygi
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