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Title Ballad About My Contemporary
Production Date n.d.
Country of Production USSR
Duration 01:00:19
Production Company Central Popular Science Film Studios
Film Subject Era 1954-1975
Genre Documentary
Summary A documentary aiming to provide insight into the daily lives of Soviet citizens in 1969.
Original Title Баллада о моем современнике
Subjects Leninism; Revolutions; Russian Revolution (1917); Ballet; Arts and culture; Fishing; Sports and games; Ice hockey; Ships and shipping; Agriculture and farming; Hospitals; Childbirth; Children; Music; Education; Schools; Elderly people; Factories; Books; Food; Shopping; Dance; Football; Pravda (newspaper); Aircraft; Construction; Workers; Power stations; Hydroelectric power stations; Marriage; Second World War (1939-1945); Transport; History; Celebrations; Youth organisations; Miners and mining; Space; Space race; Health and medicine; Medical practitioners; Science
Director Rodovskiy; Dmitry
Contributors
Script:
Krebs, Vladimir, Rodovskiy, Dmitry

Photography:
Ropeyko, Vadim

Music:
Zhuravlev, Alex

People Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Gagarin, Yuri (1934-1968)
Places USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Russia; Dnieper River; Komsomolsk; Siberia; Tashkent; Uzbekistan; Leningrad (St Petersburg, Petrograd); Kazakhstan
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and White
Language English (Narrator)
Module Culture & Society
Copyright The British Film Institute