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For You at the Front!
RUSSIA · 1942

For You at the Front!

Dziga Vertov
World War II love and separation patriotism epistolary narrative home front
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Synopsis

From the start, Vertov made himself known as an irreconcilable enemy of “acted films,” which he regarded as a violation of truth. At the peak of World War II, however, such lofty artistic principles proved impractical. Vertov’s poetic and patriotic For You, Front! is a fiction film with a script and two actors. In a letter to her fiancé, a soldier on the front, Saule asks if there is anything he n

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