Three Songs About Lenin
About Three Songs About Lenin
Dziga Vertov builds the film on three anonymous songs about Lenin. The first is a song of a woman in a veil in Soviet Central Asia. The second is a lament at his death. The third is a work song of the country after him. Nadezhda Krupskaya appears. The film runs on the songs, not on a narrator explaining them.
Cast & crew
More about Three Songs About Lenin
Dziga Vertov directed and wrote it. Dmitri Surensky photographed it. Yuri Shaporin wrote the music. A first version was shown in August 1934. The dated release is November 6, 1934.
Themes
Background
Made in 1934, ten years after Lenin's death, at Mezhrabpom-Film.
In film history
Vertov's sound documentary that takes its shape from three folk songs instead of from a lecture.
Look
Dmitri Surensky photographed it.
Music
Yuri Shaporin wrote the music, set against the three songs.
Preservation
The film survives. Internet Archive holds it as threesongsoflenin, and Wikimedia Commons as Three Songs about Lenin (1934).webm.
Notes
- Krupskaya, Lenin's widow, is on screen.
- Vertov organized the picture as three songs rather than as a chronological biography.
Also available
- Internet Archive (threesongsoflenin)
- Wikimedia Commons (Three Songs about Lenin (1934).webm)
