История российского кино. Рождение мифа

(2023)

Жанры: документальный

Год: 2023

Длительность: 166 мин

Страна: Russia

Режиссёр: Vladimir Kocharyan

В ролях: Зара Абдуллаева, Алексей Айги, Антон Долин, Tamara Eidelman, Евгений Гиндилис, Николай Изволов, Николай Куликов, Georgy Molodtsov, Александр Роднянский, Nina Tsyrkun

Сюжет

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.