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| 5/1 - | Prostoy Sluchay (Life is Beautiful), Vselevod Pudovkin’s first sound film, receives a mixed response from audiences due to its use of slow motion and extravagant scenario. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – Soviet film stock factories begin production, and are producing the Soviet Union’s entire requirements within 12 months. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| USSR 1931: Other Films of Note | ||||
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| Odna (Grigori Kosintzev, Leonid Trauberg) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Zlatye gory (Sergei Yutkevitch) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Putovka v zhizn (Nikolai Ekk) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1932 | ||||
| 3/12 - | Vselevod Pudovkin’s Prostoy sluchay (A Simple Case) is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – The first Five Year Plan results in the balance of film trade between the USSR and USA shifting in the Soviet’s favour for the first time. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| USSR 1932: Other Films of Note | ||||
| Vstrechnyy (Counterplan) (Friedrich Ermler, Sergei Yutkevich) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Ivan (Alexander Dovzhenko) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1933 | ||||
| Lev Kuleshov’s Velikiy uteshitel (The Great Consoler) is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – 44 films are produced in the USSR in 1933. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| USSR 1933: Other Films of Note | ||||
| Okraina (Boris Barnet) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| 15/9 - | Mikhail Romm’s first feature, Pyshka, is released by the Moskino-Kombinat studio. The film is a silent adaptation of Maupassant’s Boule-de-suif. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 5/10 - | German actor Erwin Piscator’s directorial debut, Vosstaniye rybakov (The Revolt of the Fishermen) is released in Moscow. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 7/11 - | Sergei and Georgi Vasiliev’s patriotic Civil War opus Chapaev (Chapayev) is released by Lenfilm. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 25/12 - | 25/12 – Grigori Alexandrov’s American-style comedy Vesyolyye rebyata (Jolly Fellows) is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| Tri pesni o Lenine (Dziga Vertov) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1935 | ||||
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| 21/2 - | The first Moscow International Film Festival is held. Films receiving awards include Georgi and Sergei Vasliliev’s Chapaev, Yunost Maxima (The Youth of Maxim) by Grigori Dozintzev and Leonid Trauberg, and Friedrich Ermler’s Krestyane (Peasants). Rene Clair’s Le Dernier Milliardaire (The Last Millionaire) and King Vidor’s Our Daily Bread are among foreign films to receive an award. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 6/11 – Ukrainfilm and Mosfilm release Alexander Dovzhenko’s Aerograd. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Aleksandr Ptushko’s Novyy Gullier (New Gulliver), a feature-length live-action and animated puppet film, is released. Based on Swift’s novel, the film nevertheless has a Soviet propagandistic slant. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – The Comintern merges Mezhrabpom into Soyuzfilm. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Grigori Aleksandrov’s Tsirk is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Lenfilm release Syn Monglii (Son of Mongolia) directed by Ilya Trauberg and starring Bato-Ochir as a prince searching for love. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Efim Dzigan’s My iz Kronshtadta (We Are From Kronstadt) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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After two years, Sergei Eisenstein is forced to stop filming of Bezhin Lug (Belzhin Meadow) by the Soviet authorities, to make a public admission of his ‘errors’, and to disown the film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Mikhail Romm’s Lenin y oktyabre, one of the first Russian films to depict Lenin, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Deputat Baltiki (Iosip Heifetz, Alexander Zarkhi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Vozvrashcheniye Maksima (Return of Maxim) (Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Trinadtsat (The Thirteen) (Mikhail Romm) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Mark Donskoy’s Detstvo Gorgoga (The Childhood of Maxim Gorky), the first of a trilogy, is released by Soyuzdetfilm studios. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sergei Eisenstein’s first sound film, Alexandr Nevsky is released. It tells the story of a prince (Nicolai Cherkassov) who forms a people’s army to fight invading Teutonic knights. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Grigori Aleksandrov’s Volga-Volga, which is alleged to have been Soviet leader Stalin’s favourite film, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Chelovek s ruzhyom (The Man With the Gun) (Sergei Yutkevitch) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Dezertir (Deserter) (Vsevelod Pudovkin) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Professor Mamlok (Herbert Rappaport, A. Minkin) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s Vyborgskaya storona (The Vyborg Side), the last film in the trilogy on Gorky Maxim’s life started in 1935, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The second part of Vladimir Petrov’s Pyotr pervyy (Peter the Great) is released. The film stars Nikolas Simonov and Nikolai Cherkassov. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sergei Eisenstein and Edouard Tisse begin shooting the short documentary The Fergana Canal. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Ivan Pyryev’s comedy drama Traktoristy (Tractor Drivers) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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V lyudyakh (Out in the World) (Mark Donskoi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Semya Oppengeym (Grigori Roshal) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Shchors (Aleksander Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Uchitel (The New Teacher) (Sergei Gerassimov) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1940 | ||||
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Alexandr Dovzhenko’s Osvobozhdeniye (Liberation) is released by the Kiev Studios. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Moi Universitety (Mark Donskoi) [MORE] [ADD] |