Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
About Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
Kino-Pravda No. 22, called a film story and known as the peasant issue, marks the first anniversary of Lenin's death. Fulfilling what the titles call Lenin's precept of an alliance between workers and peasants, 500 peasant men and women arrive in Moscow. The issue then turns to Lenin's effect on peasants and on people the titles treat as oppressed nations.
Cast & crew
More about Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
Dziga Vertov directed. Goskino produced it through Kultkino. The Austrian Film Museum dates the issue 13 March 1925, times the existing print at 19 minutes 24 seconds at 18 frames per second, and gives its length as 397 meters. Cameramen were Mikhail Kaufman, Aleksandr Lemberg, and Ivan Beliakov. Elizaveta Svilova edited. Wikidata also lists 26 March 1925.
Themes
Background
Lenin had died in January 1924. This issue was released around the first anniversary, during the campaign for an alliance of city and village.
Making
Svilova's cut joins the Moscow visit of the peasant delegation to found footage and titles about Lenin and the countryside.
Look
Mikhail Kaufman, Aleksandr Lemberg, and Ivan Beliakov photographed it. Elizaveta Svilova edited.
Music
Silent, with Russian intertitles.
Preservation
The Austrian Film Museum holds a print of 397 meters, running 19 minutes 24 seconds at 18 fps. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Russian file title is Krestyanskaya, the peasant issue. Another title is V serdtse krestyanina Lenin zhiv.
- The on-screen credit is a Kultkino production by Dziga Vertov.
- UCLA's 2012 Vertov series billed No. 22 as the Peasant Kino-Pravda, made for the smychka campaign.
- The Kino-Pravda series ran to 23 issues, from June 1922 into 1925.
- A Wikimedia file of the issue is online. The museum print is the one timed at 19 minutes 24 seconds.
Scenes
- Titles announce the anniversary of Lenin's death and say he lives in the heart of every worker.
- Five hundred peasant men and women arrive in Moscow.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1925. Кино-Правда №22. Крестьянская.webm)
