In the Bryansk Polesie
About In the Bryansk Polesie
Ilya Kopalin's silent newsreel moves through Bryansk: the local museum, the forests, timber rafts, marshes, and fishing. Villages and fields follow, then peasant work and a church and a monastery. A procession, a blessing of water, a memorial for the dead, and a wedding are shown, along with the women's holiday called Morgossy. Women plait bast shoes, spin flax, and weave. The reel also shows collective-farm machines, Bryansk streets, a sawmill, a phosphorite plant, and schools.
Cast & crew
More about In the Bryansk Polesie
Ilya Kopalin directed. Pyotr Zotov was the cameraman. Soyuzkinokhronika produced it in 1930. The Wikimedia Commons file is marked as a fragment of the film.
Themes
Background
The 1930 reel sets church processions and a monastery next to collective-farm ploughing and a phosphorite plant.
Look
Pyotr Zotov photographed the Bryansk locations for Kopalin.
Preservation
Wikimedia Commons holds a fragment. A circulating copy runs about 22 minutes.
Notes
- The Russian title is В брянском полесье.
- The Commons description lists a timber-export office, Gublesoyuz, among the sites.
- Religious scenes include a cross procession and a commemoration of the dead.
- Peasant women are shown processing hemp as well as flax.
Scenes
- Logs float through the Bryansk forest while villagers fish the marshes.
- A wedding and the women's holiday Morgossy sit beside shots of collective-farm harvesters.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (В брянском полесье)