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The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh
RUSSIA · 1919

The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh

Dziga Vertov
religious relics Soviet newsreel documentary cinema Orthodox Christianity film history
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Synopsis

This newsreel documentary was shot by Lev Kuleshov in 1919, which once credited to Dziga Vertov. A fragment of this newsreel was shown in the documentary The Kuleshov Effect (1969), where Kuleshov talked about his early film work, claiming this short newsreel as his own work.

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