Kino-Pravda No. 8

Name: Kino-Pravda No. 8
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-02-21
Duration: 15 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Mikhail Kaufman, Ivan Belyakov, Aleksandr Lemberg, Dziga Vertov

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NR 15 minDocumentary

Part of Kino-Pravda Collection

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A bet is placed on the outcome of the Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / The verdict / People in streetcars and on the street / A crashed aircraft / Reconstruction of streetcar line 13 / Peacetime use of tanks – airport construction work.

StarringMikhail KaufmanIvan BelyakovAleksandr Lemberg

DirectorDziga Vertov

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Kino-Pravda Collection

Between 1922 and 1925, a total of 23 issues of Dziga Vertov’s newsreel series KINO-PRAVDA (KINO-TRUTH) appeared (albeit irregularly and in very few copies). Vertov’s goal was to create a kind of ‘screen newspaper’; the title is a tribute to the newspaper Pravda founded by Lenin. Just like the KINONEDELJA (KINO-WEEK) newsreel series (1918-19), the KINO-PRAVDA issues offer a fascinating insight into the early Soviet Union and demonstrate the rapid development of Vertov’s film language. The 22 surviving issues (No. 12 is lost) have been digitized and subtitled in German and English by the Austrian Film Museum.