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Sergei Eisenstein is awarded the Stalin prize for his historical epic Alexander Nevsky. [MORE] [ADD] |
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As the invading Germany army advance, Sergei Eisenstein decamps to Alma-Alta in Kazakhstan. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– A cinema in Moscow installs the country’s first stereo speaker system. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Soyuzfilm-Lenfilm studios are destroyed by fire during the Leningrad Siege. [MORE] [ADD] |
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USSR 1941: Other Films of Note |
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Svinarka I pastukh (They Met in Moscow) (Ivan Pyryev) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 9/7 - | Leningrad Takes Up Arms, compiled from footage taken by four cinematographers during the siege of Leningrad is released by Leningrad Studios. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Exiled Polish filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Aleksander Ford form the Avant-Garde Cinema Company to report on the activities of Polish partisans. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 11/11 |
Alexander Stolper and Boris Ivanov’s Zhdi menya (Wait for Me) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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USSR 1943: Other Films of Note |
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Dva boytsa (Leonid Lukov) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 24/1 - | Mark Donskoi's Raduga, a depiction of the Nazi atrocities suffered by a Ukrainian village during the occupation, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan Groznyy (Ivan the Terrible) is released. The film, which stars Nikolai Cherkasov in the title role and features the music of Prokofiev, took three years to complete. Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Berman and Mikhail Nazvanov also star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sergei Eisenstein is hospitalised with heart problems. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sergei Eisenstein comes under intense criticism for Ivan Groznyy II, facing claims that he has made Ivan look like ‘a man lacking in will and in character, resembling the irresolute Hamlet, and his court into a den of the Ku Klux Klan.’ Russian leader Stalin also condemns the work and it remains unreleased until the late 50s. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Alexander Andreyevsky’s Robinzon kruzo (Robinson Crusoe) is released. Shot on the Black Sea coast, it is the world’s first 3D colour talkie. [MORE] [ADD] |
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USSR 1946: Other Films of Note |
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U planinama Jugoslavije (Misa Mirkovic) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sergei Eisenstein and Nikolai Cherkasov, director and star of Ivan Groznyy II (Ivan the Terrible Part II) have a meeting with Stalin to discuss the film, which has angered Stalin because of its exploration of the abuse of power. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Actor Nikolai Cherkasov is made ‘an artist of the people’ by Stalin. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sergei Eisenstein is made head of the cinematographic section of the History and Art Institute at the Soviet Union Science Academy. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Soyezdetfilm studios release Mark Donskoi’s Selskaya outchitelnitsa (The Village Teacher). [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Ivan Ivanov-Vano’s Konyok-gorbunok (The Magic Horse), the Soviet Union’s first full-length animation film, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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USSR 1947: Other Films of Note |
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Marite (Vera Stroyeva) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 11/2 - | Director Sergei Eisenstein dies of a heart attack in Moscow at the age of 50. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 21/2 - | Mikhail Chiaureli's two-part Padeniye Berlina (Berlin Falls) is released by Mosfilm studios. [MORE] [ADD] |