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Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

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Date: 23 Oct 2015 11:25:00
Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:08:58 + 01:27:11 | 6,88 Gb
Score AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Russian or English intertitles with English subs (see below)
Genre: Documentary, Drama


Dziga Vertov - Shagay, sovet! AKA Stride, Soviet! - IMDB
Esfir Shub - Padenie dinastii Romanovykh AKA The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty - IMDB

Though praise for Vertov's newsreel work was not unanimous, there was enough of it to yield several feature-length commissions. The first of these was Stride, Soviet!, a film intended to publicize, in the run-up to local elections, the work and accomplishments of the Moscow municipal council of "soviet." The use of film to promote the work of prominent Soviet institutions began as early as 1922, but the films produced bored the viewers, never amounting to anything more than a simplistic gallery of sights. The question of what form feature-length non-fiction filmmaking should assume loomed large over the first half of the 1920's. Many, including Lenin himself, thought that documentaries should resemble illustrated lectures: rigidly logical and text-heavy.

Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

Lecture films, inexpensive and following a familiar form, were produced in large numbers during the 1920's and 1930's. In Stride, Soviet! Vertov attempts a different kind of lecture film, one that disposes of staid commentary in favor of sharp visual conflicts that mimic the impact of a fiery orator. Developing the plan in 1925, Vertov envisioned the film proceeding as a montage of contrasts. For him, advertisement was best received in an agitated state, and the best possible promotion of Moscow, was a view of a city with all its contradictions intact. Vertov's determination was a boon for film history, but not necessarily for the Moscow Soviet.

Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

The members of Moscow's governing body were not thrilled with their virtual absence from Stride, Soviet!, but the film was recognized by many as a major leap forward in the evolution of documentary. The brevity of the film's titles and its bold visuals impressed critics, as did Vertov's ability to depict political material without the bureaucratic stodginess that plagued most educastional films or kulturfilms, as they were known in Germany and Russia. In 1925, the year before Stride, Soviet! was released, Sovkino had produced many kulturfilms, 70 to be exact. None of these however could compare to Vertov's films. His remained the only significant contribution to the development of the feature-length documentary in the Soviet Union. Stride, Soviet! showed the horrors of the Civil War era, dramatized the transformation underway, showed the contrasts and disparities born of the New Economic Policy (NEP), and ended by looking ahead with Lenin's promise that NEP Russia will become Socialist Russia.

Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

Out of all Vertov's feature films, Stride, Soviet! is the most rhetorically direct, the one most clearly built on a linguistic foundation. Based on a speech given by a member of the Moscow Soviet, the film takes as its subject the daily life and labor of a city, showcasing the government's accomplishments through variations on the opposition of then and now, yesterday and today. Throughout the film, Vertov effectively dismantles the information/illustration divide, characteristic of newsreel and lecture films, replacing a running commentary with a relay of image and text, a give and take of verbal and visual information. The images in Stride, Soviet! - shot by kinok Ivan Beliakov - do not reiterate the titles but maintain an independent significance. The titles, never just vessels for information, bristle with affect and a slogan-like intensity.

Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

The desire to cross-pollinate text and image culminates in Vertov's use of footage to complete sentences initiated by the title. The short titles - truncated phrases, propositions, and conjunctions - are incorporated into the film's overall montage and do not feel like dead spots. Tellingly, the majority of titles in the film cannot stand on their own as complete statements and need to be completed by an image. The effect is akin to a reading lesson for the new age; when we see the title "When the industrial plant…" followed by a shot of a machine at work, we are expected to fill in the gap with "is working."

Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

Vertov's choice to render the momentum of a city-in-progress through fragments of text and image showcased the possibilities of montage to rhythmically re-organize documentary reality. While Stride, Soviet! is one of Vertov's most accessible and favorably received films, it also marked the start of a backlash against Vertov's brand of documentary montage. The idea of montage remained in the minds of most as the highest form of organization, but the recognized value of documentary footage led some to suggest that the editing of such footage must be held to a different standard than the fiction film. The assault began, ironically enough, with Lev Kuleshov's attach on Vertov's method in the journal New LEF, and was later taken up by other prominent critics, such as Viktor Shklovsky. The chief accusation was that Vertov's fascination with rhythmic organization caused him to betray the document for the sake of a subjective impression. The historical record was, in Vertov's hands, subjugated to the rhetorical force of the film's argument. And in the second half of the 1920's, it is the willingness to disregard the historical specificity of the image that would become a staple criticism lodged against Vertov and his approach to montage.
Maxim Pozdorovkin
Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

The campaign for a montage style that preserved the intelligibility of film as a historical record was bolstered by the release of Esfir Shub's compilation film The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (Padenie dinastii Romanovykh). Universally acclaimed, the film established Shub as a new type of documentarian, an editor-director. Made entirely of archival footage from 1913-1917, Shub's montage of historical documents was the result of countless hours spent poring over old newsreels, official film records and home movies of the Tsar's family and other dignitaries. Though not the first compilation film, The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty is a cornerstone of found-footage filmmaking because of the director's aesthetic approach to the historical chronicle.

Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

[Esfir] Shub's film, Padenie dinastii Romanovykh, is composed of spliced archive footage, which aims to show the iniquities of the Tsarist regime, the rise of popular unrest throughout the First World War and the final victory of the masses. After the exposure to countless TV documentaries and broadcasts using archive footage, a modern audience may view Shub's film as unremarkable and even boring. However, Shub's pioneering efforts in this field are remarkable. In her reminiscences, Shub recalled how she spent countless hours "opening" film documents which had lain forgotten or discarded in basements, cellars and cupboards, often unidentified as to the time, place and significance of the subject.

Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

She was even forced to track down films which had been sold abroad, and to watch hours of newsreel footage purchased from America in her attempt to find appropriate images. Previously insignificant or trivial scraps of film attain new importance within the sequence of Shub's editing. For example, a shot of a regional Tsarist governor and his wife sipping tea in their garden, while their bulldog gambols at their feet, becomes a scene of despotic cruelty when it is intercut with shots of peasants toiling in the fields. Shub overlays the film with lengthy intertitles and uses quotes from speeches, banners and declarations to link the film fragments and place them in an appropriate historical framework, so that the viewer is left little latitude to interpret events for himself.
kinoglaz.fr
Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

In May 1913 the Romanov Dynasty celebrates its 300th anniversary on the Russian throne. The last emperor in the long line is Czar Nicholas II. He rules over a country with huge social and economic differences. Russia is for the most part still an agrarian society, but capitalism and its industries are growing. In 1914 Russia gets involved in the First World War. Czar Nicholas II declares a general mobilization. A vast number of peasants and workers have to go to the front as soldiers. After three years the country is ruined by the war, and there is a shortage of provisions. In February 1917 workers begin striking in the capital, Petrograd. Their protests are soon joined by soldiers. Complete anarchy is threatening the country, when the parliament … reorganizes the power structure by forming a new Provisional Government. At the same time the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies forms another ruling body at the City Hall of Petrograd. In this situation Czar Nicholas II sees no other possibility than to resign from his government. On the 4th of March 1917 he declares his abdication from the throne. The new Provisional Government and its war minister Kerensky continue the war. This presents an opportunity for the Bolsheviks to organize demonstrations and to persuade the workers and soldiers to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power themselves.
Maths Jesperson, IMDB.com
Stride, Soviet! (1926) + The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty (1927) [Re-UP]

NOTE!
Stride, Soviet! - Russian intertitles with English subs
The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty - English intertitles only

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