Victorious Destination
About Victorious Destination
A drawn poster of a locomotive driven by Stalin. Enemies cannot stop it. The short praises the five-year plans, industrialization, and collectivization, and sings Life Has Become Better, Life Has Become Merrier.
Cast & crew
More about Victorious Destination
Dmitry Babichenko, Leonid Amalrik, and Vladimir Polkovnikov directed. N. Petrov wrote it. D. Karetny photographed. Aleksei Aksyonov and Konstantin Listov wrote the music. Alexander Zharov wrote the song texts. P. Bazhenov and K. Urbetis designed it. S. Rensky was sound director. Soyuzmultfilm, 1939. Runtime 7 minutes. The catalog credits only Amalrik. Wikidata credits only Babichenko. Russian Wikipedia credits all three.
Themes
Background
It sells the five-year plans and uses Stalin's 1935 slogan as the song.
Making
Three Soyuzmultfilm directors made a seven-minute agitation cartoon rather than a story film.
Look
D. Karetny photographed the drawn film.
Music
Aleksei Aksyonov and Konstantin Listov wrote the music. Alexander Zharov wrote the words, including Life Has Become Better, Life Has Become Merrier.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The song is Zhit stalo luchshe, zhit stalo veseley, the line Stalin used in 1935.
- The image is a locomotive the enemies cannot halt.
- A file is on Wikimedia Commons as 1939. Победный маршрут.ogv.
Scenes
- Enemies fail to stop the locomotive.
- The cartoon sings Life Has Become Better, Life Has Become Merrier.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1939. Победный маршрут.ogv)
Quotes
Life has become better, life has become merrier!
