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Title Half a Century of Sport
Production Date 1967
Country of Production USSR
Duration 00:59:15
Production Company Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow
Film Subject Era Pre-1917; 1917-1924; 1925-1939; 1939-1945; 1946-1953; 1954-1975
Genre Documentary
Summary Documentary looking at sporting success in the Soviet Union, and linking sport and fitness with a healthy society prepared for work and war.
Subjects Sports and games; Soldiers; Athletics; Gymnastics; Swimming; Children; Social class; Workers; Elderly people; Skiing; Ice skating; Weight lifting; Football; International relations; Leisure; Parachute jumping; Rowing; Boxing; Second World War (1939-1945); Cycling; Olympic Games; Ice hockey; Chess
Director Babrov, Georgi
Contributors
Script:
Viktorov, Victor

Photography:
Serov, Yuri, Babazhan, Alexei

People Isakova, Maria (1918-2011); Bagriantseva, Yelisaveta (1929-1996); Dumbadze, Nina (1919-1983); Ponomaryovam Nina (née Romashkova) (1929-2016); Kuts, Vladimir (1927-1975); Kapitonov, Viktor (1933-2005); Skoblikova, Lidiya (1939-); Zhabotinsky, Leonid (1938-2016); Mamatov, Viktor (1937-); Yashin, Lev (1929-1990)
Places USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); German Democratic Republic (GDR); Armenia
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and White
Language English (Narrator)
Module Culture & Society
Copyright The British Film Institute