166 minutos
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.
Zara Abdullayeva
Alexey Aygi
Anton Dolin
Tamara Eidelman
Evgeny Gindilis
Nikolai Izvolov
Nikolai Kulikov
Georgy Molodtsov
Alexander Rodnyansky
Nina Tsyrkun
Yelena Stishova
Natalya Ryabchikova
Stanislav Dedinskiy
Evgeny Margolit
Alisa Nasrtdinova
Olga Derevyankina
Vsevolod Korshunov
Nikolay Mayorov
Denis Fedorin
Kirill Goryachok
Natalya Nusinova
Kristina Matvienko
Anna Zakrevskaya
