A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.

Kino.Pravda.No.21.1925.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Language(s):Russian Intertitles
Subtitles:English

The post Dziga Vertov – Kino-pravda no. 21 – Leninskaia Kino-pravda. Kinopoema o Lenine AKA Kino-Pravda No. 21 (1925) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Dziga Vertov records the achievements, and some failures, of the Moscow soviet.

Shagay, sovet (1926) Dziga Vertov.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/B28E6D90174A9BB/Shagay,_sovet_(1926)_Dziga_Vertov.srt

Language(s):Russian [intertitles]
Subtitles.French [hardcoded],English

The post Dziga Vertov – Shagay, sovet! AKA Stride, Soviet! (1926) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

PLOT:
Vertov and his Kino group produced this lyrical documentary on the lives of Coal miners in the Donbas who are struggling to meet their production quotas under the five year plan. Enthusiasm is most noteworthy for it’s creative use of the new sound medium. Vertov liberated the recording equipment from the studio and shot sound on location. He also used common everyday sounds and wove them into what can only be described as a symphony. In fact, after seeing the film Charlie Chaplin wrote: “Never had I known that these mechanical sounds could be arranged to sound so beautiful. I regard it as one of the most exhilarating symphonies I have heard. Mr. Dziga Vertov is a musician.”

Enthusiasm.1930.Dziga.Vertov.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/B0F07AB7960022E/Enthusiasm.1930.Dziga.Vertov.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English, French

The post Dziga Vertov – Entuziazm (Simfoniya Donbassa) AKA Enthusiasm (The Donbass Symphony) (1930) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

PLOT:
Fired from Sovkino studio after A Sixth Part of the World, Vertov (and his brother-cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman and wife-assistant director Elizaveta Svilova) was soon hired by the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration. The trio’s first assignment was a documentary celebrating the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution – more or less the same kind of ode-in-pictures as Stride, Soviet! and A Sixth Part of the World. But while the political theme of The Eleventh Year may be orthodox and plain, its photography and editing are daring and complex. In the eyes of a left-wing artist of the twenties, ten years of Socialism was a radical social experiment, and as such, deserved, nay, required to be presented in a radically experimental way.

1.06GB | 52m 48s | 662×514 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B123CCB3516CE16/The.Eleventh.Year.1928.Dziga.Vertov.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):Russian [intertitles]
Subtitles:German,English

The post Dziga Vertov – Odinnadtsatyy AKA The Eleventh Year (1927) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The legendary Dziga Vertov’s most personal and deeply felt film, as well as the touchstone of his brilliant career. Three Songs of Lenin reveals the Russian leader as seen through the eyes of the Russian people represented in three songs. The first, “In a Black Prison Was My Face,” concerns the life of a young Muslim woman. “We Loved Him” deals with the life and death of Lenin himself. The third song, “In the Great City of Stone” shows the accomplishments of his glorious rule.

Most important, however, are the sheer exhilerating beauty of Vertov’s images and the majesty of his filmmaking skills. The director of Man With a Movie Camera and Kino Eye, Vertov was simply the greatest visual artist of his time. Three Songs of Lenin, his last feature film, is a moving rendition of a man’s life.

https://nitro.download/view/71B4B491DD04A86/Three.songs.about.Lenin.1934.Dziga.Vertov.DVD.Xvid.QQZ.avi

Language(s):Russian
Subtitles:English hard

The post Dziga Vertov – Tri pesni o Lenine AKA Three songs about Lenin (1934) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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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 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 in 2017/18 and are now available online.

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About Kino-Pravda: An Introduction by Yuri Tsivian
Of all the rarely seen Vertov films, Kino-Pravda (1922–25) is the rarest of all. Everyone (starting with Vertov himself) mentions Kino-Pravda as the playground for Vertov’s boldest experiments in film form, but how many of us have actually seen any of its 23 issues – apart from special issue 21, devoted to Lenin’s death? To show the whole 3-year run of the Kino-Pravda newsreel (all but one survive, though some in fragments) was – I am sure – one of the Giornate’s history-changing decisions. I doubt if it had ever been done before – or could have be done, without the involvement of RGAKFD and the Österreichisches Filmmuseum, which hold two of the world’s major collections of Vertov’s films. It’s quite a marathon, it is true, but the reward for running is given not at the finish line, but in the process: to see Kino-Pravda issue-by-issue is like watching a time-lapse movie showing the growth of Soviet avant-garde cinema (born in 1922, not in 1924 as we are normally told).

Like many a Left-wing artist of the 1920s, Vertov thought that revolutions in art are some­how linked with revolutions in politics. His Kino-Pravda was about both. In Russian, pravda means “truth”, but the Pravda part of the film’s title alludes not to pravda the truth but to Pravda the paper – the Communist Party’s principal daily newspaper (illegal before, official after 1917). Vertov was never a Party member, but one could hardly find a more stalwart partisan of the Party than he. It may sound strange to hear a full champion of the party in power call himself a revolutionary – but then the Soviet Twenties was a strange time. The October Revolution did not end in October, Party leaders kept saying, true revolutions only begin with the takeover of power. All this sounds like doubletalk, and doubletalk it may have been, but if you believed it you felt doubly empowered: you could be a political orthodox while remaining politically – and artistically – Left.

Living Church State-supported “Renovationists”
Portable projector No. 4 (“Peredvizhkino no. 4”) Mobile film-showing equipment
VFKO All-Russian Photo and Film Section

12:35–12:38
[Banner:] Support cooperatives, not private capital!

12:39–12:42
[Banner:] Develop the co-operative system and contribute to women’s liberation

13:51–13:53
[Banner:] The private trader’s motto: You cheat, you sell!

13:51–13:53
[Inscription:] All-Russian Joint-Stock Co. Sovkino Moscow

https://nitro.download/view/2A0DE1D4B53A11C/Kino-Pravda_No._9.mkv

Language(s):Russian Intertitles
Subtitles:English (.srt), German (.srt)

The post Dziga Vertov – Kino-Pravda No. 9 (1922) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
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 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 in 2017/18 and are now available online.

Quote:
About Kino-Pravda: An Introduction by Yuri Tsivian
Of all the rarely seen Vertov films, Kino-Pravda (1922–25) is the rarest of all. Everyone (starting with Vertov himself) mentions Kino-Pravda as the playground for Vertov’s boldest experiments in film form, but how many of us have actually seen any of its 23 issues – apart from special issue 21, devoted to Lenin’s death? To show the whole 3-year run of the Kino-Pravda newsreel (all but one survive, though some in fragments) was – I am sure – one of the Giornate’s history-changing decisions. I doubt if it had ever been done before – or could have be done, without the involvement of RGAKFD and the Österreichisches Filmmuseum, which hold two of the world’s major collections of Vertov’s films. It’s quite a marathon, it is true, but the reward for running is given not at the finish line, but in the process: to see Kino-Pravda issue-by-issue is like watching a time-lapse movie showing the growth of Soviet avant-garde cinema (born in 1922, not in 1924 as we are normally told).

Like many a Left-wing artist of the 1920s, Vertov thought that revolutions in art are some­how linked with revolutions in politics. His Kino-Pravda was about both. In Russian, pravda means “truth”, but the Pravda part of the film’s title alludes not to pravda the truth but to Pravda the paper – the Communist Party’s principal daily newspaper (illegal before, official after 1917). Vertov was never a Party member, but one could hardly find a more stalwart partisan of the Party than he. It may sound strange to hear a full champion of the party in power call himself a revolutionary – but then the Soviet Twenties was a strange time. The October Revolution did not end in October, Party leaders kept saying, true revolutions only begin with the takeover of power. All this sounds like doubletalk, and doubletalk it may have been, but if you believed it you felt doubly empowered: you could be a political orthodox while remaining politically – and artistically – Left.

http://nitroflare.com/view/F25355F64014533/Kino-Pravda_No._8.mkv

Language(s):Russian Intertitles
Subtitles:English (.srt), German (.srt)

The post Dziga Vertov – Kino-Pravda No. 8 (1922) first appeared on Cinema of the World.