Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel made to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilich Lenin (21st January 1924 - 1925) drawn from 'The Final Journey', a Pravda feuilleton written on the occasion of Lenin's funeral by the man who had introduced Vertov to cinema, Mikhail Koltsov. Contains: First anniversary of Lenin's death: 1. Assassination attempt on Lenin and Soviet Russia's progress under his leadership / 2. Lenin's illness, death and funeral / 3. The year after Lenin's death
Editing
Vertov's montage hits harder than your ADHD.
Direction
Turns a dead politician into cinema poetry.
Production
Funeral footage transformed into national mythmaking.
Director
Dziga Vertov
Vladimir Lenin
Himself (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Himself (archive footage)
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Herself (archive footage)
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Himself (archive footage)
Mikhail Frunze
Himself (archive footage)
Mikhail Kalinin
Himself (archive footage)
Kliment Voroshilov
Himself (archive footage)
Semyon Budyonny
Himself (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vertov's wife Elizaveta Svilova edited this while pregnant; their later 'Man with a Movie Camera' became her masterpiece.
Kino-Pravda literally means 'film-truth'—Vertov's manifesto against fake studio pictures, yet here he's manufacturing political truth.
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