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1920s Soviet Union

16 films · 2 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925 · Dziga Vertov
Hammett
Hammett
1982 · Wim Wenders
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
1951 · Douglas Sirk
Earth
Earth
1930 · Alexander Dovzhenko
Ashes and Diamonds
Ashes and Diamonds
1958 · Andrzej Wajda
Leviathan
Leviathan
2014 · Andrey Zvyagintsev
Blue Collar
Blue Collar
1978 · Paul Schrader
Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses
2000 · Ken Loach
Her Brother
Her Brother
1960 · Kon Ichikawa
He Laughed Last
He Laughed Last
1956 · Blake Edwards
Isadora Duncan, The Biggest Dancer in the World
Isadora Duncan, The Biggest Dancer in the World
1966 · Ken Russell
Le Train en marche
Le Train en marche
1971 · Chris Marker
Mister Johnson
Mister Johnson
1991 · Bruce Beresford
My Lenin
My Lenin
1970 · Ritwik Ghatak
Tokyo March
Tokyo March
1929 · Kenji Mizoguchi
Blood Money
Blood Money
1974 · Antonio Margheriti
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Sergei Eisenstein → Soviet Union

Pioneer of Soviet montage cinema who created revolutionary films like Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928) that directly depicted and celebrated 1920s Soviet ideological and political transformation.

Dziga Vertov → Soviet Union

Created groundbreaking documentary and experimental films like Man with a Movie Camera (1929) that captured the energy and modernism of 1920s Soviet life and industrial society.

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