The Birth of Soviet Cinema(1976)

movie - first aired/released 1976-01-23 - audience 9.0

Directed by Aleksandr Gintsburg

The film tells the story of the development of Russian and Soviet cinema from the late 19th century to the late 1920s. It focuses in particular on the landmark silent films of Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Alexander Dovzhenko, which have become classics of world cinema.