A Sixth Part of the World (A Kino-Eye Race around the U.S.S.R. Export and Import by the State Trading Organization of the U.S.S.R.) (U.S.S.R., 1926);
Kino-Pravda No. 19 (U.S.S.R., 1924)

February 11, 2012 - 7:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

In-person:

Jan-Christopher Horak, UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Directed by Dziga Vertov

When Gostorg, a state trading trust, commissioned Vertov to make a promotional film about their nationwide operations, Vertov produced, not an advertisement, but a Walt Whitmanesque ode to the vastness and diversity of his country. As Chris Marker commented, “If I had to choose the ten best documentaries of all time I’d call it preposterous but if there’s ONE to choose: A Sixth Part of the World.”

Musical accompaniment provided by Robert Israel.

Screenwriter: Dziga Vertov. Cinematographer: Ivan Belyakov, Samuil Bendersky, Mikhail Kaufman, N. Strukow, Yakov Tolchan. Editor: Dziga Vertov.

35mm, b/w, silent w/ Russian intertitles and live English translation, 18 fps, 74 min.

Preceded by:

Print courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum

Kino-Pravda No. 19 (U.S.S.R., 1924)

Directed by Dziga Vertov

Kino-Pravda No. 19 contrasts cold and hot, winter and summer, Russia’s arctic regions and Russia’s southern sea.

35mm, b/w, Silent with Russian intertitles and live English translation, 18fps, 18 min.

Part of:

Kino-Eye: The Revolutionary Cinema of Dziga Vertov

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A Sixth Part of the World (A Kino-Eye Race around the U.S.S.R. Export and Import by the State Trading Organization of the U.S.S.R.) (U.S.S.R., 1926); Kino-Pravda No. 19 (U.S.S.R., 1924)

Kino-Pravda No. 19 (U.S.S.R., 1924)

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A Sixth Part of the World (A Kino-Eye Race around the U.S.S.R. Export and Import by the State Trading Organization of the U.S.S.R.) (U.S.S.R., 1926);
Kino-Pravda No. 19 (U.S.S.R., 1924)