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Title City on the Neva
Production Date 1957
Country of Production USSR
Duration 00:57:22
Production Company Leningrad Newsreel Studios; Sovexportfilm
Film Subject Era Pre-1917; 1917-1924; 1925-1939; 1939-1945; 1946-1953; 1954-1975
Genre Documentary
Summary Feature about the city of Leningrad in celebration of its 250th anniversary.
Original Title Город на Неве
Subjects Towns and cities; Politicians; Celebrations; Speeches; Parades and marches; History; Architecture; Arts and culture; Russian Revolution (1917); Memorials; Awards; Hydroelectric power stations; Ships and shipping; Museums; Workers; Engineering; Technology; Industry; Blockade; Ruins; Eastern Front (Second World War); Reconstruction; Construction; Housing; Underground railways; Young Pioneers; Children; Academics; Universities; Performing arts; Ballet
Director Vasilenko, V.; Solovtsov, V.
Contributors
Script:
Ladozhsky, A.

Camera:
Ovsyannikov, F., Stankevich, K.

People Kozlov, Frol Romanovich (1908-1965); Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924); Khrushchev, Nikita (1894-1971); Voroshilov, Kliment (1881-1969); Somov, Mikhail (1908-1973); Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837)
Places USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Leningrad (St Petersburg, Petrograd)
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and white
Film Format 16mm Comb BW pos
Language English (Narrator)
Module Culture & Society
Copyright The British Film Institute