Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin

Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About LeninCast and Crew

Movie

Cast

V
Vladimir Lenin
as Himself (archive footage)
J
Joseph Stalin
as Himself (archive footage)
N
Nadezhda Krupskaya
as Herself (archive footage)
A
Anna Ulyanova
as Herself (archive footage)
F
Felix Dzerzhinsky
as Himself (archive footage)
M
Mikhail Frunze
as Himself (archive footage)
L
Leonid Krasin
as Himself (archive footage)
Y
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky
as Himself (archive footage)
M
Mikhail Kalinin
as Himself (archive footage)
C
Clara Zetkin
as Herself (archive footage)
K
Kliment Voroshilov
as Himself (archive footage)
S
Semyon Budyonny
as Himself (archive footage)

Crew

D
Dziga Vertov
Director
G
Grigory Giber
Director of Photography
A
Aleksandr Levickii
Director of Photography
A
Aleksandr Lemberg
Director of Photography
M
Mikhail Kaufman
Director of Photography
P
Petr Novitskii
Director of Photography
E
Eduard Tisse
Director of Photography
N
Nikolai Izvolov
Archival Footage Coordinator
N
Nikolai Izvolov
Editorial Coordinator
N
Nikolai Izvolov
Post Producer
N
Nikolai Izvolov
Producer

Kino-Pravda

Between 1922 and 1925, a total of 23 issues of Dziga Vertov’s newsreel series KINO-PRAVDA (KINO-TRUTH) appeared (albeit irregularly and in very few copies). Vertov’s goal was to create a kind of ‘screen newspaper’; the title is a tribute to the newspaper Pravda founded by Lenin. Just like the KINONEDELJA (KINO-WEEK) newsreel series (1918-19), the KINO-PRAVDA issues offer a fascinating insight into the early Soviet Union and demonstrate the rapid development of Vertov’s film language. The 22 surviving issues (No. 12 is lost) have been digitized and subtitled in German and English by the Austrian Film Museum.