Three Heroines (U.S.S.R., 1937);
For You, Front! (For the Front!/Tebe, Front!) (U.S.S.R, 1943)

March 24, 2012 - 7:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

Print courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum

Three Heroines (U.S.S.R., 1938)

Directed by Dziga Vertov

Vertov the filmmaker had two passions: women and planes. These two passions came together in Three Heroines (1938), which follows the legendary female pilots Raskova, Osipenko and Grisodubova in their failed but magnificent attempt to make the first nonstop trans-Siberian flight. The film’s unspoken irony: a good crash and a successful rescue make a better story than a mission accomplished.

Cinematographer: S. Semenov.

35mm, b/w, in Russian w/ English subtitles, 54 min.

Print courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum

For You, Front! (For the Front!/Tebe, Front!) (U.S.S.R, 1943)

Directed by Dziga Vertov and Elizaveta Svilova

From the start, Vertov announced himself an enemy of “acted films” but at the peak of World War II, such lofty principles proved impractical. For You, Front! is a poetic and patriotic fiction film. In a letter to his fiancée, Dzhamil, a soldier on the front, tells her what he needs most: lead, that most precious metal, used to make bullets to kill the enemies of “our beloved country.”

Cinematographer: B. Pumpyansky.

35mm, b/w, in Russian w/ English subtitles, 45 min.

Part of:

Kino-Eye: The Revolutionary Cinema of Dziga Vertov

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Three Heroines (U.S.S.R., 1937); For You, Front! (For the Front!/Tebe, Front!) (U.S.S.R, 1943)

Three Heroines (U.S.S.R., 1938)

For You, Front! (For the Front!/Tebe, Front!) (U.S.S.R, 1943)

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Three Heroines (U.S.S.R., 1937);
For You, Front! (For the Front!/Tebe, Front!) (U.S.S.R, 1943)