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Propaganda soviética animada (VV.AA., 1924-1984)

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Propaganda soviética animada
Анимационная советская пропаганда / Filmy animowane sowieckiej propagandy / Animated Soviet Propaganda
VV.AA. (URSS, 1997) [514 min]

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Sinopsis:

    En la Unión Soviética se realizó una extensa producción de cortometrajes de animación, siendo el estudio de animación moscovita Soyuzmultfilm donde se crearon la gran mayoría. «Propaganda Soviética Animada» es una recopilación de 36 cortos animados que muestran sesenta años de historia de la URSS.

    Están divididos en cuatro partes según su temática:
    - «Imperialismo americano» consta de 7 cortos que muestran a las sociedades capitalistas como violentas, egoistas, racistas y codiciosas.
    - «Salvajes fascistas» recopila 12 cortos que tratan sobre la Gran Guerra Patriótica y sus efectos.
    - «Tiburones capitalistas» contiene 6 cortos sobre las relaciones de la Unión Soviética con los países capitalistas (y más allá).
    - «Hacia un brillante futuro: comunismo» está formado por 11 cortos que mitifican y ensalzan las políticas llevadas a cabo en la Unión Soviética.

lexis nekres, en Cine Clásico, escribió:Como veis, se trata de un ripeo de 4 DVD con 40 archivos de vídeo; el audio de los documentales es inglés (o ruso con subtítulos en inglés); todos los cortos están en VO (ruso) con subtítulos en inglés pegados en imagen. Están en formato avi comprimidos en dos archivos .rar (de unos 2,5 Gb cada uno) con estos enlaces.


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Idioma original: Ruso e inglés en los vídeos de presentación de cada DVD.





DVD 1 - Americanos imperialistas

    Portada
    Black and White / Chernoe i beloe / Черное и белое
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1932)
    Dirección: Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Leonid Amalrik
    «Blanco y negro» cuenta la historia de Willie, un limpiabotas que cometió el terrible error de preguntar a Mister Bragg, el Rey del azúcar blanco, «¿Por qué el azúcar blanco debe ser creado por el hombre negro?»...
    Portada
    Mister Tvister / Мистер Твистер
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1963)
    Dirección: Anatoli Karanovich
    Cuenta la historia de un rico estadounidense que viaja con su familia a Leningrado de vacaciones. Cuando descubre que hay huéspedes de color en el hotel Anglaterre decide cancelar su reserva. El conserje llama a todos los demás hoteles de Leningrado...
    Portada
    chuzhoi golos / Чужой голос / Someone Else’s Voice
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1949)
    Dirección: Ivan Ivanov-Vano
    Un pájaro soviéico regresa a casa desde el extranjero y se dispone a dar un concierto. Cuando empieza a cantar jazz, un nuevo tipo de música que aprendió en sus viajes, los otros pájaros soviéticos la abuchean y la echan del bosque...
    Portada
    Аве Мария
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1972)
    Dirección: Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Vladimir Danilevich
    Muestra la hipocresía de las clases dominates de Estados Unidos, quienes, escondiéndose tras las palabras de paz, apelando a Dios, encabezan una dura guerra contra pacifistas estadounidenses y contra los patriotas vietnamitas...
    Portada
    Millioner / Миллионер
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1963)
    Dirección: Vitold Bordzilovski, Yuri Prytkov
    Basado en un poema infantil escrito por Samuil Marshak. Cuando una rica y solitaria mujer fallece, deja toda la herencia a su perro, un bulldog. En un país capitalista, y teniendo dinero, el perro llega a ser un respetado banquero e influyente político...
    Portada
    Tir / Тир
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1979)
    Dirección: Vladímir Tarásov
    Megaurbe estadounidense anónima, década de 1970. Un chaval deambula desesperado en busca de trabajo hasta que se le ofrece uno en una galería de tiro. No sabe que el imaginativo empresaurio tiene un plan muy jodido para hacer más lucrativo su negocio...
    Portada
    Мистер Уолк / Mister Volk
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1949)
    Dirección: Víktor Gromov
    Un estadounidense rico se retira junto a su familia a la Isla de la Paz. Todo va bien hasta que se descubre petróleo en la isla y la codicia prevalece sobre las actitudes pacíficas de Mister Walk. Al final, el ejército de Estados Unidos debe intervenir...




DVD 2 - Los bárbaros fascistas

    Portada
    Kino-tsirk / Кино-цирк / Cinema Circus
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1942)
    Dirección: Leonid Amalrik, Olga Jodataieva
    Programa circense antifascista en tres números, revelando la especulación militar de Hitler y prediciendo su final sin gloria...
    Portada
    Ne toptat fashistskomu sapogu nashei rodiny / Не топтать фашистскому сапогу нашей родины
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1941)
    Dirección: Aleksandr Ivanov, Ivan Ivanov-Vano
    Animación creada en los primeros meses de la Gran Guerra Patria. El fascismo, retratado como un feo cerdo antropomórfico, pisotea los países de Europa: Checoslovaquia, Polonia, Dinamarca, Yugoslavia y Grecia, y también lanza bombas sobre Holanda...
    Portada
    Sterviatniki / Стервятники
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1941)
    Dirección: Panteleimon Sazonov
    Los invasores fascistas son retratados como buitres...
    Portada
    Zhurnal politsatiry Nº2 / Журнал политсатиры № 2
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1941)
    Dirección: Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg, Olga Jodataieva, Aleksandr Ivanov, Ivan Ivanov-Vano
    Cuatro cortos de animación sobre la Segunda Guerra mundial. «Un firme apretón de manos» es uno de los pocos casos en los que se muestra a un país capitalista desde un punto de vista positivo, en este caso los soldados soviéticos y británicos cooperan...
    Portada
    Tebe, Moskva! / Тебе, Москва! / To You, Moscow
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1947)
    Dirección: Grigori Lomidze
    Este corto se realizó en conmemoración del 800 aniversario de la fundación de Moscú mostrando diferentes aspectos de su historia...
    Portada
    Prikliuchenia krasnyj galstukov / Приключения красных галстуков
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1971)
    Dirección: Vladimir Pekar, Vladimir Popov
    Un grupo compuesto de dos chicos y una chica integrantes de la Organización de Pioneros desafían al ejército nazi que ha ocupado su pueblo colocando una bandera soviética en el cuartel general nazi...
    Portada
    Skripka pionera / Скрипка пионера / The Pioneer's Violin
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1971)
    Dirección: Boris Stepantsev
    Un soldado nazi intenta obligar a que un joven pionero toque una canción alemana con su violín. Sin embargo, en su lugar decide tocar el himno «La internacional»...
    Portada
    Vasilyok / Василёк
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1973)
    Dirección: Stela Aristakesova
    La Segunda Guerra mundial dejó a muchos niños soviéticos sin padres ni abuelos. En este corto Vasiliok busca por todos sitios a su abuelo, descubriendo finalmente que es un héroe de guerra tan famoso que le han puesto su nombre a un barco...
    Portada
    Urok ne vprok / Урок не впрок / Lesson Not Learned
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1971)
    Dirección: Valentin Karavaiev
    Un nazi permanece oculto hasta que se escapa a la zona controlada por EE.UU. de la Alemania dividida. Los americanos le curan y decide crear un plan para reunificar Alemania que fracasa cuando se topa con el muro de Berlín...
    Portada
    Vnimanie, volki! / Внимание, волки!
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1970)
    Dirección: Yefim Gamburg
    Un niño que vivía con los lobos es encontrado en una zona remota de Alemania occidental por ex-nazis, los cuales capturan y entrenan junto a otros muchos niños para difundir hostilidad y odio en todo el mundo...
    Portada
    Istoria odnoi kukly / История одной куклы
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1984)
    Dirección: Boris Ablynin
    Corto creado para conmemorar el 40 aniversario de la victoria soviética sobre Alemania. En un campo de concentración alemán los prisioneros soviéticos fabrican un muñeco de Don Quijote con trozos de metal, convirtiéndose en un símbolo de esperanza...
    Portada
    Eto v nashij silaj / Это в наших силах
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1970)
    Dirección: Lev Atamanov
    Corto antibelicista sobre la capacidad de las personas para evitar la guerra...




DVD 3 - Tiburones capitalistas

    Portada
    Mezhplanetnaia revoliutsia / Межпланетная революция
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1924)
    Dirección: Nikolai Jodataiev, Zenon Komissarenko, Yuri Merkulov
    Unos apasionados bolcheviques exportan la Revolución a Marte. Cuando los capitalistas escapan de la Tierra y llegan a Marte, se encuentran a los comunistas allí, celebrando un congreso del partido bajo una bandera de Lenin...
    Portada
    Budem zorki / Будем зорки / We’ll Keep Our Eyes Peeled
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1927)
    Dirección: Nikolai Jodataiev
    El Secretario de Estado de Asuntos Exteriores británico, Lord Curzon, intenta sabotear el desarrollo de la recién creada Unión Soviética con un embargo comercial. Los soviéticos compran bonos del gobierno, ceando así una nueva nación industrial...
    Portada
    Aktsionery & Cо / Акционеры & Cо / The Shareholder
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1963)
    Dirección: Roman Davydov
    Un trabajador de un país capitalista cree que siendo propietario de una parte de la fábrica en la que trabaja tendrá más oportunidades en su ascenso y se salvará de la pobreza...
    Portada
    Gordy korablik / Гордый кораблик / Proud Little Ship
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1966)
    Dirección: Vitold Bordzilovski
    Un joven pionero construye una miniatura del barco «Aurora», el crucero cuyo disparo dio inicio a la revolución de octubre. El barco surca los mares en nombre de la «amistad soviética» siendo únicamente perseguido por los tiburones capitalistas...
    Portada
    Proroki i uroki / Пророки и уроки / Prophets and Lessons
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1967)
    Dirección: Viacheslav Kotionochkin
    Animación política sobre los intentos fallidos del capitalismo por detener los éxitos de la Unión Soviética. Basado en los dibujos de Boris Yefimov...
    Portada
    Kitai v ogne / Китай в огне / China in Flames
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1925)
    Dirección: Nikolai Jodataiev, Zenon Komissarenko, Yuri Merkulov
    Crítica de la intervención extranjera en la economía china. Fue el primer largometraje animado creado en la Unión Soviética. Supuso la primera vez en la que se propagaba la idea de que la Unión Soviética podría ayudar a sus débiles y necesitados vecinos...




DVD 4 - Hacia un brillante futuro: comunismo

    Portada
    Vperiod, vremia! / Вперёд, время!
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1977)
    Dirección: Vladimir Tarasov
    Película sugerente, compleja y visualmente cautivadora, basada en poemas ideológicos de Vladímir Mayakovski en los años 20, así como en los anuncios que Vladímir Mayakovski creó durante la Nueva Política Económica con el vanguardista Alexander Rodchenko...
    Portada
    Sovetskie igrushki / Советские игрушки / Soviet Toys
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1924)
    Dirección: Dziga Vértov
    Es considerada la primera película de animación soviética y fue creada por Dziga Vértov. Basada en las caricaturas políticas de V. Deni que aparecieron en el periódico Pravda. Los rusos se refieren a las decoraciones del árbol de año nuevo como «juguetes»...
    Portada
    Samoiedski malchik / Самоедский мальчик / Samoyed Boy
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1928)
    Dirección: Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg, Nikolai Jodataiev, Olga Jodataieva
    Un niño de la etnia nenet trabaja para el chamán del pueblo haciendo trucos en los rituales, hasta que un día por error deja en evidencia ante el resto de la tribu los trucos que realizan. El chamán, humillado, lo expulsa del pueblo al mar...
    Portada
    Organchik / Органчик / Little Music Box
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1933)
    Dirección: Nikolai Jodataiev
    Basada en un capítulo de la famosa novela «Historia de una ciudad (История одного города) (1869-1870)» de Mijaíl Saltykov-Shchedrín. La novela trata sobre la absurda burocracia bajo los gobiernos rusos del Zar a mediados del siglo XIX...
    Portada
    Кино-Правда Nº21 Ленинская
    Filmoteca de no ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1924)
    Dirección: Dziga Vértov
    El documental insinúa que los países capitalistas celebraron la muerte de Lenin pensando que así caería la Unión Soviética, sin embargo el Partido Comunista Ruso incrementó sus filas en 100.000 afiliados...
    Portada
    Что сказал XIII съезд партии (о кооперации) / Chto skazal XIII siezd partii (о kooperatsii)
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1925)
    Primer congreso posterior a la muerte de Lenin. El Congreso condenó unánimemente la plataforma de oposición trotskista, definiéndola como una desviación pequeñoburguesa del marxismo, como una revisión del leninismo, y ratificó las resoluciones votadas...
    Portada
    Pobedny marshrut / Победный маршрут / Victorious Destination
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1939)
    Dirección: Leonid Amalrik, Dmitri Babichenko, Vladimir Polkovnikov
    Animación de agitación sobre una locomotora, dirigida por Stalin, que no puede ser detenida por los enemigos. Se elogian los logros de la industrialización y la colectivización que se llevaron a cabo en la Unión Soviética a través de planes quinquenales...
    Portada
    Boievye stranitsy / Боевые страницы / War Chronicles
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1939)
    Dirección: Dmitri Babichenko
    Historia de la invasión que sufrió Rusia durante la Revolución y la Guerra Civil por parte de tropas de Estados Unidos, Canadá, Reino Unido, Japón, Checoslovaquia, Polonia y otros...
    Portada
    Goriachi kamen / Горячий камень / A Hot Stone
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1965)
    Dirección: Perch Sarkisian
    Basado en un cuento de Arkadi Gaidar (Аркадий Гайдар). Cuenta las memorias de un anciano sobre la gloriosa Revolución de Octubre...
    Portada
    Pesni ognennyj let / Песни огненных лет / Songs of the Years of Fire
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1971)
    Dirección: Inessa Kovalevskaia
    Este corto animado, dedicado al Glorioso Ejército Rojo, contiene varias de las más famosas canciones de la Guerra Civil Rusa...
    Portada
    Plius elektrifikatsia / Плюс электрификация / Plus Electrification
    Filmoteca de ficción. (Unión Soviética, 1972)
    Dirección: Ivan Aksenchuk
    Corto animado que trata sobre el plan GOELRO para hacer llegar la electricidad a cada pueblo de Rusia y posteriormente de la Unión Soviética...




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Nota Lun Jun 12, 2017 7:34 am
Este aconsejable y largo documental ya está colgado en youtube, pero de manera fragmentaria, en diversos formatos de vídeo, y es posible que no duren eternamente.

A continuación copio el contenido de cada CD (son cuatro), tal y como viene especificado en los alchivos:

PART 1: AMERICAN IMPERIALISTS
DVD LINER NOTES

PART 1: American Imperialists

Black and White
Mister Twister
Someone Else’s Voice
Ave Maria
The Millionaire
Shooting Range
Mr. Wolf

1. Black and White, 1933, directed by I. Ivanov-Vano and L.
Amalrik. Mezrabpomfilm. Based on “Black and White,” a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Mayakovsky is often called the loudspeaker of the Bolshevik Revolution. Yet he was also a most talented poet, whose works are widely quoted even today. As a graphic artist, he was one of the founders of the Okna Rosta (Rosta Windows) a massive media publicity blitz which used posters to spread word of the Revolution via the Russian telegraphic agency.
The animation in “Black and White” is based on his drawings.
In 1922, Mayakovsky received special permission to travel to America.
En route he stopped in Cuba where Americans controlled the sugar and tobacco industries. “Black and White” tells the story of Willie, the shoe shine boy, who makes the fatal mistake of asking the White Sugar King Mister Bragg, “Why should white sugar be made by a black man?”. Only fragments of the film were found, without restorable sound. It was decided to underscore the fragments with excerpts from “Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child,” recorded by Paul Robeson in 1949 at the Tchaikovsky Theatre in Moscow. The son of an American slave, Robeson was an athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and political activist. He spoke fluent Russian. Although he never officially joined the Communist party, he supported the USSR politically which brought him to the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and ultimately probably cost him his American career. In 1952 Robeson was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize. He translated the Soviet national anthem into English. His rendition, also recorded in Moscow in 1949, underscores the end credits of this episode. Oleg Vidov (actor/producer): “The Soviet propaganda machine glorified Robeson almost as an achievement of the International Revolution. But for the Soviet people who attended his concerts or heard him on radio, he was a good friend from America, the country which helped us to defeat the Nazis. During a time of oppression and Stalin terror, here came this good-spirited, free person from the United States. Unlike us, he could travel freely and bring us songs in English. He also taught us to sing ‘Ole Man River’ in Russian.
Total Running time: 2:27 min.

2. Mister Twister, 1963, A. Karanovitch, Soyuzmultfilm Studio. Based on the popular children’s poem written in 1933 by Samuel Marshak who is also credited with writing the script, “Mister Twister” tells the story of a wealthy American who travels with his family to Leningrad for a vacation. When he learns there are “guests of color” at the Angleterre hotel, he cancels his reservation. The concierge calls ahead to all other hotels in Leningrad and advises them not to give the American racist and his family a room. Mr. Twister returns to the Angleterre, and after spending the night in the lobby decides he has overcomes his prejudices. During the USSR school children regularly memorized the Marshak poem.
Sonia Marshak. M.D. (Scientist): My great grandfather was a poet, satirist, and outstanding translator of English literature -- Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, and Kipling among others. He founded, in 1920, one of the first children’s theaters in the Soviet Union, and wrote plays for it.
Highly effective in persuading gifted writers and artists to write for children, he also headed the Children’s Section of the State Publishing house. During the years of the Stalin terror, the Section came under attack for its alleged bourgeois leanings. Members the group were accused of being associated with “Samuel Marshak, Enemy of the People.” They were interrogated, killed, and sent to labor camps in Siberia and the Arctic.
Julian Lowenfeld (translator): The animated film, made in the 60s, differs from the original poem, written in the 30s, in several curious ways. First of all, in the original poem, little Susan announces :I'm going to eat nothing but caviar black, And catch real live sturgeons in handfuls! On the banks of the Volga I'll ride in a troika I'll run round collective farms With nothing but raspberries heaped in my arms! Although Marshak is credited with the screenplay, we do not know why Susie's motives for visiting Russia were omitted from the film. Did the censors in Brezhnev's "era of stagnation" feel that an American millionaire's daughter supposedly wanting to visit the Soviet Union to pick raspberries at a collective farm sound so absurd it would seem satirical? Another curious twist to the Mr. Twister Film is the behavior of the concierge of the Angleterre. In the film, he plays an active part in teaching Mr. Twister a lesson about proletarian solidarity and the costs of intolerance, by phoning all the other hotels in town and telling them not to give Mr. Twister a room (even though rooms are available). But in the original poem, the concierge does no such thing--rooms truly are unavailable anywhere else, because Leningrad is full of foreign tourists in town for an international congress.
Total Running time: 15:33 min.

3. Someone Else’s Voice. 1949. I. Ivanov-Vano. Soyuzmultfilm.
Written by Sergei Mihalkov, a popular children’s poet who also wrote the lyrics to the Soviet National Anthem. Jazz was an early victim of the Cold War, condemned as “an enemy of the people.” In this film for children, a Soviet bird returns home from abroad and gives a concert. When she sings jazz, a new kind of music she learned on her travels, the Soviet birds boo and hiss and drive her from the forest.
Note: Whatever the official policy, jazz was popular in the USSR and was used in the score of many later films in this series.
Total running time: 9:23 min.

4. Ave Maria, 1972, I. Ivanov-Vano. Soyuzmultfilm.
Also known as “Against American Aggression in Vietnam,” this film is as anti-war as anti-American and portrays the Church as an actively malignant social influence. Underscored by Schubert’s “Ave Maria.” Ivanov-Vano, who worked as an animator on some of the animation films made in the 20s such as “China in Flames,” went on to become the USSR’s foremost director of animated films for children.
Vladimir Paperny (writer and cultural historian): I think that propaganda goals of the 70s and the 30s and the 40s were quite different. In the 40s and the 30s, and even before, the idea was to project the Soviet Union as a very powerful, very invincible warrior, something that doesn’t compromise and just fights to the very end, something very menacing, aggressive and something that everybody should fear. In the 70s, the Soviet Union was presented as the defender of humanitarian values, as a fortress of the fight against barbarism. You can see it in “Ave Maria.” The sound track is Schubert’s “Ave Maria,” a religious song, and the imagery is icons, paintings of the Madonna with a child. The official Soviet ideology was atheism and despite this, those religious images were supposed to present the Soviet Union as the new defender of humanity and humanitarian bounds.
Total Running time: 9:34 min.

5. The Millionaire, 1963, V. Bordzilovsky and Y. Prytkov,
Soyuzmultfilm.
Also based on a poem for children by Sergei Mihalkov. A rich American woman leaves a million dollars to her beloved bulldog. The theme is that in America, money can buy anything; the bulldog becomes rich and powerful and eventually a member of the U.S. Congress.
Total running time: 9:57 min.
6. Shooting Range, 1979, V. Tarasov. Soyuzmultfilm.
Based on a play by V. Slatkin. An unemployed American gets a job in a shooting gallery as a live target; the greedy capitalist owner charges patrons double for the chance to shoot at a human being. Tarasov, a fan of J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye,” modeled the film’s hero on Holden Caulfield. An artist as well as an animation director, Tarasov combed through back issues of “America,” a magazine published by the U.S. government during the Cold War, and American comic books, to lovingly create the film’s fabulous New York City back drop. The attention to detail is amazing (and sometimes off base), from the graffiti on the buildings to the brand name on the back of the hero’s tennis shoes.
Total running time: 19:14 min.

7. Mr. Wolf, 1949, directed by V. Gromov. Soyuzmultfilm.
Based on the drawings of renowned political caricaturist Boris Yefimov who is interviewed in Part 4 of this series. A wealthy American retires with his family to the “Island of Peace.” All is well until oil is discovered and greed trumps Mr. Wolf’s peaceful attitudes. In the end the U.S. military arrives to protect Mr. Wolf’s private island and his oil.
Total Running time: 10:04 min.

OVERVIEW COMMENTATORS:
• Igor Kokarev, Professor of Film Sociology, Russian State Film
School
• Vladimir Tarasov, director/ artist “Shooting Gallery”
• Dr. Sofia Marshak, PhD, great-granddaughter of children’s poet
Samuel Marshak



PART 2: THE FASCIST BARBARIANS
DVD Liner Notes
FILMS IN PART 2: Fascist Barbarians

Cinema Circus
Fascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland
Vultures
Newsreels #1-4
What Hitler Wants
Beat Fascist Pirates
Strike the Enemy on the Front Lines and at Home
A Mighty Handshake
To You Moscow
Adventures of the Young Pioneers
The Pioneer’s Violin
Vasilyok
Lesson Not Learned
Attention! Wolves!
Tale of A Toy
We Can Do It
The Soldier and The Garden
We’re Drawing October

1. Cinema Circus, 1942, directed by L. Amalrik and O. Khodataeva, Soyuzmultfilm.
One of a handful of animated short “political posters” that survived World War II, this one ridicules Hitler and his cronies. The master of ceremonies is a caricature of the USSR’s most famous clown, Karandash, whose name means pencil in Russian.
Total Running Time: 3:34 min.

2. Fascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland, 1941, directed by
A. Ivanov and I. Vano. Soyuzmultfilm.
A political film-poster made in the first months after the Nazi invasion of the USSR. Sound track is from the popular march “Our Armor Is Strong and Our Tanks Are Fast.” Vocals by the Alexandrov Ensemble.
Total Running Times: 2:41 min.

3. Vultures, 1941, directed by P. Sasonov. Soyuzmultfilm.
Fascist invaders portrayed as vultures. Original sound was not found.
Total Running Time: 2:11 min.

4. Newsreels #1-4: “What Hitler Wants,” “Beat Fascist Pirates,” “Strike
the Enemy on the Front Lines and at Home,” and “A Mighty Handshake.” 1941. Directed by V. and Z. Brumberg, A. Ivanov, O. Khodataeva, and I. Ivanov-Vano. Soyuzmultfilm.
Four animated shorts from World War II. “A Mighty Handshake” is the only animated propaganda film in this series which shows a capitalist country in a positive light – in this case British and Soviet soldiers cooperate in the war against the Nazis.
Total Running Time: 8:11 min.

5. To You Moscow, 1947, directed by G. Lomidze. Soyuzmultfilm.
An animated history of the city of Moscow, including the Nazi invasion, made to honor of the city’s 800 th anniversary.
Vladimir Paperny (writer and cultural historian): When we look at this film about the 800th anniversary of the city of Moscow, what’s amazing is that it’s done in the painterly style of the 19th Century realism, almost like Repin and Levitan. Everything is painted in this realistic manner. And then somehow there is an almost seamless transition from this style to actual color photographs and 35mm color film. That suggests that the realism in the painting was almost the same way as they saw it in the early Renaissance. The object of painting is to trick the viewer, to make the viewer believe that what he or she is looking at is real life. That’s why when they cut from the animated realistic painting to color photograph or color film we don’t see any contradiction. It is just a natural transition. Now when you look at the films of the 70s, you see some careful attempts to bring some modernism into [these ideological films]; you can see some impressionistic touches, some kind of semi-avant-garde attempts, very modest, very careful. but it’s there.
Total Running Time: 17:33 min.

6. The Adventures of the Young Pioneers, 1971, directed V. Pekar.
Soyuzmultfilm.
Boy scouts and girl scouts, known as Pioneer Pens, defy German forces occupying their village by flying a Soviet flag over Nazi headquarters.
Captured as partisans, they are rescued by the Red army.
Total Running Time: 17:34 min.

7. The Pioneer’s Violin, 1971, directed by B. Stepantsev,
Soyuzmultfilm.
A Nazi soldier tries to force a young Soviet boy scout to play a German song on his violin. Instead he defiantly plays the [then] Soviet national anthem, “The International,” and is shot by the Nazi.
Fyodor Khitruk: Patriotic themes existed and were included into the plan of Goskino (the State Film Committee)...We weren’t pushed to make films based on these themes, but the political repertoire was put together by what they approved or did not approve, as in feature films and literature. ‘The Pioneer’s Violin’ probably wasn’t promoted by somebody. They didn’t write the scripts on Vasiliev Street [Goskino]. As I remember, Boris Stepanstev who made this film, made it honestly thinking it was needed.
Total Running Time: 7:45 min.

8. Vasilyok, 1973, directed by S. Aristakesova. Soyuzmultfilm.
World War II left Soviet children without fathers and grandfathers. Vasilok searches everywhere for his grandfather, and finally discovers he was a war hero, so famous a ship was named for him.
Total Running Time: 9:40 min.

9. A Lesson Not Learned, 1971, directed by V. Karavaev,
Soyuzmultfilm.
Based on caricatures by Boris Yefimov, who is interviewed in Part 4 of the series. This film was made in reaction to “revanchism” – fear that Germany would reunite and seek revenge on Europe and the USSR for World War II.
A disguised Nazi slips into the US zone of divided Germany. The
Americans nurse him back to health as he plots how to reunite the Fatherland. His plans are ruined when he runs headlong into the Berlin Wall, erected by the USSR between East and West Berlin in 1961.
Vladimir Paperny: The Soviet Union invested millions of dollars as we now know into supporting the peace movement. They supported the disarmament movement and they supported the anti-nuclear movement.
German “revanchism” was one of these buzz words that was supposed to win over young left-wing people in the west.
Total Running Time: 5:13 min.

10. Attention! Wolves! 1970, directed by Y. Gamburg. Soyuzmultfilm.
Based on “Blond Aryan Beast,” a story by L. Lagin. A Child is found in the wilderness of West Germany, living with wolves. He is captured and trained by ex-Nazis.
Total Running Time: 16:53 min.

11. Tale of a Toy, 1984. directed by B. Ablinin, Soyuzmultfilm
Made to commemorate the 40 th anniversary of the Soviet victory over the Germans. The film won second prize at the XXII Leipzig Festival of Films for Children. In a German concentration camp Russian prisoners fashion a Don Quixote doll from a bit of metal. It becomes their symbol of hope.
The lyrical film is bracketed with references to the Spanish Civil War, which led to decades of authoritarian rule by Generalissimo Franco, and the 1973 coup d’etat in Chile which toppled the socialist, pro-Soviet regime of Salvadore Allende. (“Clear skies” was the codeword which launched Franco’s 1936 coup, supported by the fascist governments of Italy and Germany and opposed by the USSR and France).
Vladimir Paperny (writer and cultural historian): Don Quixote is an international cultural symbol. The message of the film is that “we” Russians are the protectors of the cultural values and European humanity which the Germans tried to destroy.
Total Running Time: 9:12 min.

12. We Can Do It, 1970, directed by L. Atamanov. Soyuzmultfilm.
An anti-war film about the ability of individuals to prevent war.
Total Running Time: 9:24 min.

OVERVIEW INCLUDES CLIPS FROM:
13. The Soldier and The Garden, 1980, directed by S. Sokolov, co-production between Soyuzmultfilm and DEFA Studio (East Germany).
A young German girl peacefully tends her flower garden until war breaks out and her surroundings are destroyed. A Soviet soldier saves her and her garden.
14. We’re Drawing October, 1977, directed by Y. Gamburg and O. Zaher. Co-production between Soyuzmultfilm and Dresden Trickfilm Studio (E. Germany).
Produced to commemorate the anniversary of the October Revolution and to celebrate the friendship between the children of the USSR and East Germany, the USSR’s staunchest ally. The paintings of the children are animated, and a song of friendship is sung in German and Russian.
OVERVIEW COMMENTARY:
• Igor Kokarev, Professor of Film Sociology, Russian State Film School
• Vladimir Paperny, writer and cultural historian
• Oleg Vidov, Actor/producer



Part 3: CAPITALIST SHARKS

Interplanetary Revolution
We’ll Keep Our Eyes Peeled
The Shareholder
Proud Little Ship
Prophets and Lessons
China in Flames
Also: Drawings of Yuri Merkulov

1. Interplanetary Revolution, 1924. Directed by N. Khodataev, Z.
Komisarenko, Y. Merkulov. GTK (Goskino Technikum)
Mezhrabpom-Rus Studio.
Silent film. Fervent Bolsheviks export the Revolution to Mars. When capitalists escaping Earth arrive on Mars, they find the comrades already there, having a party congress beneath a banner of Lenin.
Irina Margolina (documentary filmmaker): Zenon Komisarenko, a pupil of great abstract painter Kazmir Malevich, made the first Soviet object animation which appeared in the feature film “Aelita,” directed by Y. Protazanov. According to the diary of Nikolai Khodataev, who worked with Komisarenko, Komisarenko prepared sketches and background for animated sequences of Aelita, but nothing came of his efforts. Therefore his group decided to make an animated film based on those sketches about the export of the Revolution to Mars. It was done as a parody of “Aelita.”
Total Running Time: 7:47 min.

2. We’ll Keep Our Eyes Peeled, 1927, directors N. Khodataev Group.
Britain’s foreign secretary, Lord Curzon, tries to sabotage development of the fledgling Soviet Union with a trade embargo. Defiant Soviets buy government bonds (obligazia) and a new industrial nation is born.
Note: We found nothing in western history books to support the storyline of this film.
Oleg Vidov (actor/producer): Soviets were regularly forced to “save” the economy from ruin, or fight the war, by buying “obligazia.” Throughout the years, the State promised to redeem the bonds, but rarely did until the Gorbachev era, but even that government did not honor many. The obligatzia were printed on good paper and so beautiful some people used them as wallpaper.
Total Running Time: 2:42 min.

3. The Shareholder, 1963, directed by Roman Davidov, Soyuzmultfilm.
An American worker believes that owning a share in the factory where he works will give him a say in the running of the company and save him from poverty. Described in animator.ru as “a critique of ‘folk capitalism.’”
Total Running Time: 23:31 min.

4. Proud Little Ship, 1966, directed by Vitold Bordzilovsky.
Soyuzmultfilm.
Animated by Vladimir Tarasov (director of “Shooting Range” from Part 1 of this series, and “Forward March, Time! from Part 4). Boy scouts build a miniature of the battleship Aurora, which according to Bolshevik history fired the first shot of the Revolution. The ship sails around the world in the name of “Soviet Friendship,” only to be pursued by evil Capitalist sharks.
Vladimir Tarasov (director/artist): I was a young artist when I got a work proposal from a very interesting man and director/artist: Vitold Bordzilovsky. He suggested I work on this film. It would have been a sin to miss the opportunity. It was very interesting work. I was just out of the Soviet army and naturally I had the appropriate approach, having been there for three years. I was against imperialism, and for our little boat and films for our children.
Total Running Time: 17:59 min.

5. Prophets and Lessons, 1967, directed by Vyacheslav Kotonochkin. Soyuzmultfilm. Described in animator.ru as “a political cinema poster for adults about the failure of capitalism to halt the success of the USSR.” Based on drawings of Boris Yefimov who is interviewed in Part 4 of this series.
Total Running Time: 9:32 min.

6. China in Flames, 1925. Directed by N. Khodataev, Y. Merkulov, Z.
Komisarenko. GTK (Goskino Technikum) Kino Moscow.
The Film protests foreign intervention in the Chinese economy. According to animator.ru it was made on order of the “United Committee for Hands Off China.” There may be a longer version, but we did not find it despite serious efforts.
Irina Margolina (documentary filmmaker): “China in Flames,” (also known as “China On Fire”) was the first full length animated film made in the USSR. It marks the first time that propagandists advanced the idea that the USSR should support neighbors who are weak and need help. A great number of the animators who worked on this film would become famous in coming years: Ivanov-Vano, V. and Z. Brumberg, Olga Khodataeva. Their different styles of animation can be recognized (for instance, many of the landscapes are clearly the work of the Brumberg sisters, and many of the capitalists were drawn by Yuri Merkulov).
Total Running Time: 37:14 min.

7. Images of Yuri Merkulov, drawn in approximately 1960-1965,
director Y. Merkulov.
These images are from the collection of documemtary filmmakers Irina Margolina and Mark Lyakhovetsky, who produced the series “Animation from A-Z.”
Irina Margolina: Yuri Merkulov collaborated with Nikolai Khodataev, the classic Soviet animator. They worked during the 20s, the most difficult period of Soviet animation. In those years animation was supposed to be propaganda -- like a poster. The purpose of an animated film was to instruct. The naïve Soviet “auditorium” needed naïve stories, which were easily understood. Merkulov’s films were political: mundane caricatures were combined with laconic story lines. Simple satire, like that produced by an amateur theatre. The heroes of the films are very good or very bad. Bad enemies and good friends. Merkulov’s films were not great artistically but they were part of that era. The interest in his work is based on Merkulov’s political belief, that what he was doing was important and necessary for the country, which comes through in virtually every frame.
Total Running time: 2 min.

OVERVIEW COMMENTATORS:
• Igor Kokarev, Professor of Film Sociology, Russian State Film
School
• Fyodor Khitruk, director/animator, Soyuzmultfilm


Part 4: Communism the Shining Future

Time Forward
Soviet Toys
Samoyed Boy
Little Music Box
Lenin’s Kino Pravda
Results of the XII Party Congress (of Cooperation)
Victorious Destination
War Chronicles
A Hot Stone
Songs of the Years of Fire
Plus Electrification

1. Forward March, Time! 1977, directed by Vladimir Tarasov.
Soyuzmultfilm.
A thought provoking, complex and visually compelling film, based on ideological poems written by the Vladimir Mayakovsky in the 20s, as well as advertisements Mayakovsky created during the New Economic Policy with avant-garde artist Alexander Rodchenko.
Tarasov: Right now it is puzzling to look back at this unachieved dream “Forward March, Time!” Pity but there is nothing left from USSR. We did the film with good heart and an understanding of the emotion of that era. Such a country existed in poetry and music, but in reality it did not exist. It was like fiction. All the obstacles created a pyramid, which then collapsed.
Julian Lowenfeld (translator): Vladimir Vladimorovich Mayakovsky, The eccentric bard (who never could quite join the Party) Of the October Revolution, Wrote verse In “stepladders” --like this.
Don’t ask why, but You get used to it After a while.
“Forward March, Time!” is a collage of some of his more radical lines from over a dozen poems over a space of nearly twenty years. (The song itself comes from Mayakovsky’s remarkable play The Bathhouse, a satire of the corruption and hypocrisy of Communist bureaucracy all the more powerful for being written by a believer).
As the voice of the Futurists, who espoused radical change in Russia, he despised the Belle Epoque saccharine clichés of “comfortable” poets like Blyumkin and Severyanin, shown here in cages, like canaries, chirping sentimental verse, as “irreproachably tender/ Not a man, but a cloud in trousers!”-- while people were starving.
I will mock At your daydreams, Dawdling on soft-boiled brains, Like a fat, lackey layabout in a dirty divan lazing! I will glut my fill, Gloat over the last bloody scraps of the heart, In arrogant bitterness raging!
For Mayakovsky, Communism was the ultimate romantic cause (“without it/ for me/ there is no love”). Despite his iconic status as the USSR’s
institutional revolutionary poet, as it were, it is his incomparable love lyrics, few of which are quoted here, which are most arresting in their depth, their ferocity—and yes, their tenderness.
Some of the advertisements in the film come from actual posters and advertisements created by Mayakovsky, who was trained as a professional artist, poster-maker, and advertiser. The spaceship Mayakovsky honors the poet’s fascination with space, the stars, and cosmic voyages, evident in such quirky gems as “Listen to Me!” and “The Flying Proletarian”. (Also see Julian Lowenfeld’s biographical notes about Mayakovsky).
Total Running Time: 17:47 min.

2. Soviet Toys, 1924, directed by Dziga Vertov. Goskino USSR.
Produced as a silent film.
Considered to be the first animated Soviet film, Soviet Toys was made by the acclaimed documentary film director Dziga Vertov. It is based on political caricatures by V. Deni which appeared in the newspaper “Pravda.” Russians refer to the ornaments on their New Year’s trees as “toys.” After the Revolution and the Civil War, Russia was in financial ruin. To jumpstart the economy, Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy, a form of limited capitalism. NEP successfully revived the economy, but there was much resentment among the party faithful of the NEP-men who became wealthy and lived lavishly.
Irina Margolina (documentary filmmaker): Vertov did this film to advertise the production abilities of the new advertising agency/filmmaker Goskino, for whom he had just gone to work (the organization’s phone number and address appear in the film).
Total Running Time: 10:44 min

3. Samoyed Boy, 1928, directed by V. and Z. Brumberg, N. Khodataev,
O. Khodataeva. 3 rd Factory of Sovkino. Made as a silent film.
In the Soviet Union everyone was suppose to have equal opportuny. In “Samoyed Boy,” a Nenetz (Eskimo) boy exposes the tricks of the shaman (tribal medicine man/magician) who members of the tribe believe can cure them by putting animal spirits into their bodies. Humiliated, the shaman drives the boy from the village. He is rescued by a Soviet ship and taken to Leningrad where he studies at special University for Northern Peoples --beneath the portraits of Marx and Lenin.
Irina Margolina (documentary filmmaker): A classic of Soviet animation.
The first film for children. It was done in the tradition of the primitive painting of the USSR’s Northern peoples (like Chukcha and Eskimos). It was the first Soviet film based on culture of the Northern people.
Total Running Time: 7:02 min.

4. Little Music Box. 1933. directed by N. Khodataev. Soyuzfilm.
Based on a chapter of the famous novel “Story of One Town” by Saltikov-Shedrin. The novel, about the inane bureaucracy of the Russian government under the Czar during the mid 19 th century, was banned during Stalin’s reign, as were all books by Saltikov-Shedrin.
Irina Margolina (documentarian): The film was shelved in the same year it was made because it was considered to be a satire on social realism and collective farms; it showed peasants as poor. It was never shown again until perestroika. In his diaries Khodataev makes clear that he was so shocked by the fate of “Little Music Box” that he abandoned his career in animation after making just one more film.
The original sound track was received in terrible condition, and was restored as much as possible.
Total Running Time: 20:18 min.

5. Lenin’s Kino Pravda (Truth in Cinema), 1924, presumed to be
directed by Dziga Vertov. Made as a silent film.
According to this film the capitalist countries celebrated Lenin’s death in 1924, which they expected to bring the demise of the USSR; instead 100,000 more Soviets joined the Russian Communist Party.
Not listed on the definitive website animator.ru, but Irina Margolina credits Dziga Vertov with making the film.
Total Running Time: 0.53 min.

6. Results of the XII Party Congress (of Cooperation), circa 1925,
director unknown
Made as a silent film, it extols the virtues of working together and collectivization.
Total Running time: 3:51 min

7. Victorious Destination, 1939, directed Leonid Amalrik, Dmitry
Babichenko, Viktor Pokolnikov, Soyuzmultfilm.
A political cinema poster celebrating the achievements of the “Bolshevik Locomotive” -- Joseph Stalin’s first three 5-Year Plans. The Film applauds the Party’s destruction of millions of peasant farmers (kulaks) considered to have capitalist psychology, and trumpets achievements of mythical coal miner Alexei Stakhanov who exceeded all norms for productivity. Some of the original music, written specifically for the film to underscore the Stakhanov sequences, was not restorable. It was replaced with the popular song “Life Is Getting Better and Happier.” The song was based on a line from a speech given by Stalin to extol the Stakhanov Movement.
Total Running Time: 6:15 min.
8. War Chronicles, 1939, directed by Dmitry Babichenko.
Soyuzmultfilm.
The story of the invasion of Russia, during the revolution, by foreign troops from the United States, Canada, the U.K., Japan, Czechoslavakia and Poland. Original sound in poor condition and had to be restored.
Total Running Time: 8:59 min.

9. A Hot Stone, 1965, directed by Perch Sarkissian. Soyuzmultfilm. Based on a story by A.Gaidar. An old man’s memories about the glorious Bolshevik Revolution.
Total Running Time: 16:37 min.

10. Songs of the Years of Fire, 1971, directed by Inessa Kovalevskaya. Soyuzmultfilm. Dedicated to the “Glorious Red Army,” this spirited film animates some of the most famous songs from the Civil War period like “Tachanka,” Meadowlands” (Polushka Pole), and “White Army, Black Baron” (Krasnaya Armia-Chornyi Baron). The music was recorded by the Alexandrov Orchestra and the State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography (conducted by E. Khachaturyan).
Total Running Time: 16:51 min.

11. Plus Electrification, 1972, directed by Ivan Aksenchuk.
Soyuzmultfilm.
Executed with Disney-like animation by one of Soyuzmultfilm’s leading directors of films for children. “Plus Electrification” triumphs the USSR’s drive to bring electricity to every town and village. It was a tenet of Vladimir Lenin that electrification plus Soviet power [vlast] would lead to Communism. Electricity is shown dramatically uniting the economies of USSR and the Eastern bloc countries through production of consumer goods like Czech crystal and Hungarian buses.
Total Running Time: 8:58 min.
OVERVIEW COMMENTATORS:
• Igor Kokarev, Professor of Film Sociology, Russian State Film School
• Fyodor Khitruk, director and animator, Soyuzmultfilm
• Vladimir Tarasov, director and animator, Soyuzmultfilm
• Boris Yefimov, satirist, artist and writer

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