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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Russian Miracle Part I: Out of the Past |
| Production Date | c. 1961 |
| Country of Production | GDR (German Democratic Republic) |
| Duration | 01:48:20 |
| Production Company | DEFA |
| Film Subject Era | Pre-1917; 1917-1924; 1925-1939; 1939-1945; 1954-1975 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Summary | First part of a two-part documentary tracing the history of the Soviet Union from the Tsarist era to the launch of Vostok One. [WARNING: images of death and execution] |
| Subjects | Cosmonauts; Space; Exploration; Communism; History; Wars; Russian Civil War (1917-1922); Russian Revolution (1917); Pre-revolutionary Russia; Agriculture and farming; Peasants; Coal; Miners and mining; Workers; Industry; Housing; Social class; Executions; Strikes; Death; Revolutions; Demonstrations; Factories; Railways; First World War (1914-1918); Bolsheviks; Counter-revolutions; Army; Japanese army; Tanks; Prisoners of war; Red Army; White Guards; Modernisation; Industrialisation; Hydroelectric power stations; Food; Food distribution; Rationing; Transport; Political parties and movements |
| Director | Thorndike, Annelie; Thorndike, Andrew |
| Cast |
Narrator: Coulouris, George, Dignam, Mark, Haye, Ina de la, Wolff, Gerry |
| Contributors |
Script: Thorndike, Annelie, Thorndike, Andrew, Rücker, Günther Music: Dessau, Paul |
| People | Gagarin, Yuri (1934-1968); Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924); Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia (1868-1918); Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895); Gorky, Maxim (1868-1936); Yudenich, Nikolai (1862-1933); Piłsudski, Jozef (1867-1935); Kolchak, Alexander (1874-1920); Kalinin, Mikhail (1875-1946); Khrushchev, Nikita (1894-1971) |
| Places | Kazakhstan; Moscow; Baku; Ukraine; Siberia; Lena River; Leningrad (St Petersburg, Petrograd); Nerchinsk; Arkhangelsk (Archangel); New York; USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Azerbaijan; USA (United States of America); Russia |
| Fiction/Non Fiction | Non Fiction |
| Sound | Sound |
| Colour Format | Black and White |
| Language | English (Narrator) |
| Module | Wars & Revolutions |
| BFI Identifier | N-507132 |
| Copyright | The British Film Institute |