“The poor parish went to the priest Pankrat. This caused him constant grief. And Pankrat decides on a trick: he buys an old icon at the bazaar and buries it in the ground, and then spreads rumors about the prophetic dream of Domna’s aunt. In the presence of parishioners, the icon is removed from the ground. The icon is credited with healing properties. As a result, the influx of believers is sharply increasing at the expense of neighboring parishes. The income of Pankrat’s father is also growing. Concerned about this, a priest from a nearby church filed a complaint with his superiors. Having learned about the “miraculous” icon, the authorities take it for themselves.
The film has not been completely preserved.”
google translation

Skazka o pope Pankrate.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/A7BDCD3BED45298/Skazka_o_pope_Pankrate.mkv
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https://nitro.download/view/17F1388113A7A31/Skazka_o_pope_Pankrate.ru.srt

Language(s):Russian intertitles
Subtitles:Russian,English

The post Aleksandr Arkatov & N. Prebrazhensky – O pope Pankrate i tetke Domne i yavlennoj ikone v Kolomne AKA Skazka o pope Pankrate AKA Tale of Priest Pankrat [Incomplete] (1918) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Film-maker Vladimir Yerofeyev (1898-1940) was a pioneer of expedition cinema in the Soviet Union, advocating for increased attention and investment in edifying non-fiction films made to win the interest of broad audiences. Pamir. Roof of the World, 1927, is his second feature film, and the first resulting from an expedition (his debut that same year, Za poliarnym krugom [Beyond the Arctic Circle] was a co-edited compilation film). In summer 1927, a trek to the mountainous Pamir region, known as the “Roof of the World”, in present-day Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, was organized by the Sovkino studio in co-operation with the Geological Committee. Yerofeyev worked with prominent geologist Dmitrii Nalivkin and ethnographer Mikhail Andreyev; both scholars had extensively researched the area and contributed to the planning for the crew’s journey.

The film opens with an animated map presenting the itinerary. Starting off in Moscow, the symbolic center of the new empire, it leads through Samara and Orenburg to Tashkent, Osh, and further on to the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia. Following a tracking shot from the moving train, the crew is shown arriving in Osh, in present-day Kyrgyzstan, the expedition’s base, where where the camera records fragments of town life: a picturesque bazaar, veiled women in the streets, and the expedition’s crew, horses, and camels, along with their heavy loads. After leaving Osh, the crew crosses the Taldyk Pass, and makes its first stop in the Alay Valley. Subsequent segments feature different elements of the trek, including crossing mountain rivers, traversing snowy passes, and descending into valleys in bloom, emphasizing the expedition’s progress. In the Alay Valley the camera records the practices of the Kyrgyz nomads – constructing a tent, keeping goats, sheep, and horses, making dairy products, and working a traditional one-shuttle weaver’s loom. The community is presented as traditional and self-sufficient. The film avoids picturing the Kyrgyz nomads as “dependent” or “primitive”, but shows them as masters of their space and a community connected to the outside world.

Pamir krysha mira.avi

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Subtitles:Russian, English

The post Vladimir Erofeev – Pamir, krisha mira AKA Roof of the world (1928) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A 20-minute documentary of Jewish settlement in the Yevpatoria district of the Crimea. Exhibiting a certain amount of Jewish irony, Jews on the Land opens with scenes of a war-devastated shtetl (all that is left of the central market is a single pathetic fish stall), than shows an elderly Jew wandering about an even more desolate wilderness. Soon, however, sod-brick settlements rise and, as irrigation ditch criss-cross the once –barren plain, the now- productivised Jews are equally transformed: a new-born baby is named Forget-You-Sorrow. Tractor drivers and Young Pioneers’ are given particular pride of place and the film-makers emphasise that, among other livestock, these new Jewish peasants are raising pigs.
“Inside the film factory” by Richard Taylor, Ian Christie

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The post Abram Room – Yevrei na zemle aka Jews on the Land (1927) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Mariann Lewinsky (Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020): “Kashtanka by Olga Preobrazhenskaya, print 1995, a film of winter, of night and snow, of children and animals, a film about loss, a masterpiece”, read my viewing notes from 2012. My Prague colleagues had it screened for me because they knew I was interested in colour in silent cinema, and they knew a tinted Soviet silent film to be a rare item. I had never heard the name of the director. My encounter with her work was enhanced by the shock of discovering that a major director who had reached international audiences with Baby ryazanskie and Tikhiy Don (The Quiet Don) around 1930 could disappear without a trace from official film history. In 2013, Il Cinema Ritrovato dedicated a retrospective to her.” Mariann Lewinsky (Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020)

Natalya Nusinova (Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020): “In the original story by Chekhov, Kashtanka is a little dog that gets lost following the trail of his drunken owner. In the film he is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. The boy Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child. The film was approved by the censors in 1926 and received the authorisation for international distribution the following year. Before the Czech print was discovered in 2012, Kashtanka had been considered lost in Russia, following the decision by the Central Committee of film censorship to ban the film in 1932 (“the underclass is portrayed as evil, lacking in class consciousness and social awareness”).” Natalya Nusinova (Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020)

AA: In Anton Chekhov’s oeuvre, Kashtanka was published during an extremely important and productive year, 1887, just before his great turning-point, the long story The Steppe. Olga Preobrazhenskaya’s Kashtanka was the first of six film adaptations of Chekhov’s beloved story.

For several generations the film was missing, believed lost. Then a Czech print was preserved from apparently the sole surviving source, battered, in low definition and low contrast and with a lot of “rain”, but still conveying an idea of the original film.

Anton Chekhov’s story has been completely changed, but a core idea remains: the ordeals of a little dog in the hands of several owners. In the movie the dog’s tale is mirrored by a parallel adventure of the little boy Fedyushka who loves it more than anything else.

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The post Ivan Pravov & Olga Preobrazhenskaya – Kashtanka (1926) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Three American workers are dismissed from the Ford plant during the Depression, and come to the Soviet Union. Not wanting to live with a man of “inferior race” one (Sam) kicks the other (Tom) out of the dorm. The Soviet workers are outraged by the American’s ugly act, declare a boycott of Sam and convince him to abandon racial prejudices and make peace with Tom.

Chyornaya kozha.mkv

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https://rapidgator.net/file/b5d5b47942fa7dc7a5aa1ea026a8beb7/Chyornaya_kozha.mkv https://rapidgator.net/file/b11ecc22d5e34d4b911db21497c0a914/Chyornaya_kozha_(eng).srt

Language(s):Russian intertitles
Subtitles:English

The post Pavel Kolomoytsev – Chyornaya kozha AKA Black Skin (1930) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:A squadron of American warplanes, armed with gas developed by Corsican chemist Gannimer (dubbed “Napoleon Gas”) flies to Leningrad. American workers inform soviet comrades about the impending catastrophe. But the air attack on the city has already begun, and the assault troops of the enemy capture one suburb of the city after the other. The Red Army is organizing the defense and reflects the attack of the enemy with gas-armed drones

… All these events turn out to be a dream of a girl from Komsomol, who came to the farm to agitate for Aviahim.

napoleon_gas.avi

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The post Semyon Timoshenko – Napoleon-gaz (1925) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

synopsis, autro-transl.: Petrograd. 1919. An unemployed musician, trying to help his sick wife, steals wood from a neighbor – a speculator. Soon he is exposed and disgraced. But once the revolutionary troops are back in the city, there’s work for a musician – to support the morale of the weary soldiers.

	
Dom.v.sugrobah(1927).avi

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The post Fridrikh Ermler – Dom v sugrobakh AKA The House in the Snowdrift (1927) first appeared on Cinema of the World.