Directed by Dziga Vertov
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Flicker Alley)
Government propaganda piece designed to motivate reconstruction and patriotism in the years after WWI. The new socialist government replaces ruined cities, wrecked locomotives and starving kids with new factories, tram lines and plenty of food to eat. Peasants are shown on collective farms while in the city workers laugh and smile while attending to their machines. In fact it is the chronicling of the industrial revolution in Russia that is the most interesting today, not necessarily the political one, since we know that failed in the long run.
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