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Title The History of the Soviet Cinema
Production Date 1959
Country of Production USSR
Duration 01:20:12
Film Subject Era 1954-1975
Genre Documentary
Summary A feature length documentary film on the history of Soviet cinema.
Subjects Cinema; Film history; Filmmakers; History; Arts and culture; Agriculture and farming; Leninism; Construction; Russian Revolution (1917); Performing arts; Miners and mining; Collective farms; Songs; Oil; Children; Second World War (1939-1945); Hydroelectric power stations; Towns and cities; Sports and games; Olympic Games; Traditional dance; Seven Year Plan; Science; Wildlife and nature; Health and medicine; Space race; Politicians; Socialism
People Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924); Gagarin, Yuri (1934-1968); Khrushchev, Nikita (1894-1971)
Places USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan); Tajikistan; Tashkent; Uzbekistan; Kazakhstan; Georgia; Moscow; Cairo
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and white
Film Format 35mm Comb BW pos
Language English (Narrator)
Module Culture & Society
Copyright The British Film Institute