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Title Soviet Monthly Newsreel 1961 No. 5
Production Date 1961
Country of Production USSR
Duration 00:10:46
Production Company SovKinoChronika
Film Subject Era 1954-1975
Genre Newsreel/Cinemagazine
Summary Procession in honour of Yuri Gagarin in Prague -- Gagarin in Sofia, Bulgaria -- Girl born in a French concentration camp reunited with family -- Fishing for sturgeon and caviar -- Construction of a power station -- Socialist life: wages, restaurant bills, bus fares -- Ping pong champion -- Chess championship -- Armenian circus in Moscow.
Subjects Space; Celebrations; Children; Health and medicine; Agriculture and farming; Science; Arts and culture; Food; Sports and games; Animals
People Gagarin, Yuri (1934-1968); Khrushchev, Nikita (1894-1971); Brezhnev, Leonid (1906-1982); Richter, Sviatoslav (1915-1997)
Places Riga; Moscow; Kiev; Georgia
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and White
Film Format 16mm Comb BW pos
Language English (Narrator)
Module Newsreels & Cinemagazines
BFI Identifier N-507511
Copyright The British Film Institute