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| 1921 | ||||
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Sergei Eisenstein is admitted to the GVIRM (State Filmmakers Institute of Higher Education). [MORE] [ADD] |
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Lenin publishes his Thesis on Propaganda and Production in which he states that the cinema must be used to further ideological development. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| USSR 1921: Other Films of Note | ||||
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Golod… golod… golod (Vladimir Gardin & V. I. Pudovkin) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1922 | ||||
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The Soviet Union begins to use cinema as a form of propaganda as a means to inform and instruct the population. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 21/5 - |
Kino Pravda replaces Kino-Nedelia, and continues to be edited by Dziga Vertov. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Dec - |
The Soviet Government forms Goskino to create a film distribution monopoly. Revenue earned from imported films will finance domestic production. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1923 | ||||
| Films of Note | ||||
| 1926 | ||||
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| 21/7 - |
During a trip to Moscow, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford visit Sergei Eisenstein and promise to invite him to Hollywood to direct a film for United Artists. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 4/10 - |
Vselevod Pudovkin’s Mat (Mother) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 26/10 - |
Fedor Ozep and Boris Barnet’s Miss Mend is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Nov - |
Russian inventor P G Tager demonstrates a system of sound film production. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| USSR 1926: Other Films of note | ||||
| Po zakonu (Lev Kuleshov) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1927 | ||||
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| 23/2 - |
In the Ukraine, Aleksandr Dovzhendo’s first full-length film, Sumka dipkuryera is completed for Odessa Productions. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 13/12 - |
Vselevod Pudovkin’s Konets Sankt-Peterburga (The End of St. Petersburg) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| USSR 1927: Other Films of Note | ||||
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Tretya meschchanskaya (Bed and Sofa) (Abram Room) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Padenie dinastii Romanovykh (Fall of the Romanov Dynasty) (Esfir Shub) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Sorok pervyy (The Forty-First) (Yakov Protazanov) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Devushka s korobkoy (The Girl With the Hatbox) (Boris Barnet) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Velikiy put (The Great Way) (Esfir Shub) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Potseluy Meri Pikford (The Kiss of Mary Pickford) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| S.V.D.- soyuz velikogo dela (Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1928 | ||||
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| 20/1 – |
Sergei Eisenstein’s Oktyabr, one of a number of films commissioned by the communist government to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the revolution, premieres in Moscow. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 5/3 – |
Nicolai Okhlopkov’s Prodannyi appetit (The Sold Appetite), written by Karl Marx’s son-in-law Paul Lafargue, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Mar – |
The country’s first Five Year Plan for the film industry is drawn up. Imports will be progressively eliminated and revenue from exports used to build the domestic production industry. Raw film stock will be manufactured, but Western sound technology will not be adopted. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 13/4 – |
Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s Zvenigora is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 12/5 – |
Sergei Eisenstein is awarded a professorial chair at the GTK Institute of Cinema. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1/8 – |
Joseph M. Schenck, the President of United Artists, invites Sergei Eisenstein to Hollywood. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 5/8 – |
Sergei Eisenstein, Vselevod Pudovkin and Grigori Alexandrov publish a manifesto on the use and editing of sound in film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 5/11 – |
Vselevod Pudovkin’s Potomok Chingis-Khana (Storm Over Asia) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– For the first time, Soviet produced films produce greater revenue than foreign imports. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| USSR 1928: Other Films of Note | ||||
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| Arsenal (Aleksandr Dovzhenko) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Dom na Trubnoy (The House on Trubnoy) (Boris Barnet) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Tsiteli eshmakunebi (Little Red Devils) (Ivane Perestiani) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Rossiya Nikolaya II I Lev Tolstoy (The Russia of Nicholas II and Leo Tolstoy) (Esfir Shub) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1929 | ||||
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Novyy Vavilon (The New Babylon), directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, premieres in Leningrad. The film stars Elena Kuzmina and features music composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Man With a Movie Camera), Dziga Vertov’s innovative study of a day in the life of a city and its people, premieres in Moscow. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 7/11 - |
Sergei Eisenstein’s Staroye I Novoye (The General Line) is finally released three years after it was filmed. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Association of Revolutionary Cinematography (ARC) is renamed the Association of Workers of Revolutionary Cinematography (ARRC) to support the cultural revolution by making ‘100% proletarian ideological film.’ [MORE] [ADD] |
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| USSR 1929: Other Films of Note | ||||
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Chiny I lyudi (Ranks and People) (Yakov Protazanov) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Goluboy ekspress (The Blue Express) (Ilya Trauberg) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Oblomok imperii (Fragment of an Empire) (Friedrich Ermler) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Turksib (Victor Turin) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Zhivoy trup (The Living Corpse) (Fyodor Otsep) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1930 | ||||
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| 9/2 - |
Mosfilm Studios opens in Moscow. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 8/4 - |
Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s Zemlya (Earth) is released. However, Soviet authorities censor a number of scenes, including peasants urinating into a tractor’s radiator and a dead man’s fiancée hysterically mourning him in the nude. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Soviet government forms Intorgkino to control importation and exportation of film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The vertically-integrated Soyuzfilm replaces Sovkino in managing all domestic film and cinema activity. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Yuli Raizman’s Zemlya zhazhdet is released as a silent film. One year later a soundtrack will be added, making it Russia’s first sound movie. [MORE] [ADD] |