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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Portrait of a Great Man |
| Production Date | 1969 |
| Country of Production | USSR |
| Duration | 00:53:58 |
| Production Company | Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow |
| Film Subject Era | Pre-1917 |
| Genre | Documentary; Biography |
| Summary | Documentary about the life of Karl Marx which uses archive material to describe his importance in Russian history and politics, and addresses the context in which his most famous works were created. |
| Original Title | Чермы великого образа |
| Subjects | Marxism; Leninism; Marxism-Leninism; Communism; Communist Party (USSR); Education; History; Science; Museums; Pre-revolutionary Russia; Russian Revolution (1917); Social class; Workers; Factories; Capitalism; Industrial Revolution; Wall Street Crash; Stock Exchange; Food; Poverty; Strikes; Police; Police brutality; Riots; Revolutions; Newspapers; Socialism; Bombing; Conferences; Exiles; Family; Memorials; Commemorations; Industrialisation; Space; Exploration; Parades and marches; Marxism-Leninism |
| Director | Kosachev, A.; Tsineman, A. |
| Contributors |
Script: Kosachev, A. Camera: Zilber, L., Chumakov, G. Music: Geviksman, Vitaly |
| People | Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Kirov, Sergey (1886-1934); Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924); Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895); Cavaignac, Louis-Eugène (1802-1857); Owen, Robert (1771-1858); More, Thomas (1478-1535); Fourier, Charles (1772-1837); de Rouvroy, Claude Henri Comte de Saint-Simon (1760-1825); Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831); Feuerbach, Ludwig (1804-1872); Smith, Adam (1723-1790); Ricardo, David (1772-1823); Westphalen, Jenny von (1814-1881); Suslov, Mikhail (1902-1982); Lessner, Friedrich (1825-1910); Daniels, Roland (1819-1855); Wolff, Wilhelm (1809-1864); Campanella, Tommaso (1568-1639); Liebknecht, Wilhelm (1826-1900); Lafargue, Paul (1842-1911) |
| Places | Leningrad (St Petersburg, Petrograd); Russia; USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Moscow; London; Trier; Germany; France; Paris; United Kingdom |
| Fiction/Non Fiction | Non Fiction |
| Sound | Sound |
| Colour Format | Black and White |
| Film Format | 35mm Comb BW pos |
| Language | English (Narrator) |
| Module | Wars & Revolutions |
| BFI Identifier | N-507201 |
| Copyright | The British Film Institute |