Directed by Victor A. Turin
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Flicker Alley)
Another government-sponsored documentary from Russia, this one designed to promote the building of a rail line from Turkestan to Siberia. In the south, cotton is king, but the fields are being used instead to grow grain. In the north, they have grain to spare, so the idea is to bring in the grain by rail and grow more cotton for mother Russia. The mammoth undertaking utilizes all of the latest machinery, but also requires a healthy amount of human labor. According to history, the rail line was completed on time in 1930 and continues today, so in that respect the film was successful.
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