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Big Vacation of the 30s

Documentary-chronicle." A film about the 30s of the twentieth century, built exclusively on chronicle footage. His epilogue may be the phrase: "And tomorrow there was a war" - in the meantime, people go to work, walk with children, celebrate the New Year. This is a montage picture from excerpts of chronicle films of the 30s. The chronicles depict many demonstrations, processions, speeches, but in detail the life of not gods and giants, but the most ordinary people who make history is guessed.

Big Vacation of the 30s

NR 2003
The Last Jew

The village of Ilyino, located in the south-western "corner" of the Tver province, at first glance does not differ from other villages of the Russian Non-Chernozem region. Meanwhile, this village is unusual, with its own special, very dramatic fate. More than 150 years ago it was founded by Jews, followers of the Hasidic creed. In the early forties, about three thousand Jews lived here. In the autumn of the 41st, German troops entered the village. Jewish families who did not have time to evacuate turned out to be prisoners of a ghetto organized by the fascists right here in the village. Those who survived this terrible time left after the war, many died. And by the beginning of the 21st century, only one of the survivors of the ghetto remained in Ilyin – Alexander Yakovlevich Karpenko. Last…

The Last Jew

NR 2003
Winter Garden

The beginning of the domestic feature film is the story of the transformation of a naive fairground splint into a salon mystical melodrama. Having gone under the shadow of glass pavilions-greenhouses, early Russian cinema is trying to hide from the impending historical catastrophe. The revolutionary storms that have broken out drive some of the film visionaries first to the Crimea, and then to emigration. For those who remained, the struggle for survival in the new conditions begins with the development of the genre of agitfilm.

Winter Garden

NR 2002
Collection N1

A film about Soviet childhood. The focus is on an ordinary Soviet boy, whose story is full of humor and colorful phrases. It is conducted from his birth to the festive graduation night. The whole life of the guy flashes on the screen, the Octobrists, red ties, faith in the victory of communism, admiration for Lenin, the Olympics-80, the iron curtain and the rejection of Western values, the first dances and falling in love, everything points to an irrevocably gone time. Through the prism of everyday life and holidays of an ordinary guy, a whole era of the cult of socialism and faith in the Soviet Union emerges. The film "Collection No. 1" turns back time, making you remember the past with nostalgia.

Collection N1

NR 2006