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50 YEARS SOVIET CINEMA
By LYUDMILA POGOZHEVA
1967 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Soviet State. The Soviet cinema has existed for fifty years. During the last ten years its development has been particularly energetic, rich in experiment and innovation. Lyudmila Pogozheva, editor-in-chief of "Film Art" magazine, tells here about the most outstanding pictures and film personalities of this period as well as about the tendencies evident in Soviet films.
During the Brussels Fair the film ‘’The Cranes Are Flying’ was being shown on screens all over the world. Director Mikhail Kalatezov and camera-man Sergei Urusevsky made a very striking film, using means that were wholly and intrinsically cinematographic. But it was not so much the whirling birch-trees in the hero’s death scene, nor the pursuant and highly emotional camera in the leave-taking scene, as the fine acting that won audiences. The part of Veronica was a triumph for actress Tatyana Samoilova. One could not forget her sweet face radiating an inner light, and her serious, slightly slanting dark eyes.
The success of this picture was stunning. It began when it was awarded First Prize at the Cannes Festival.
Much has been written about it. Innumerable letters have been received by the film-makers from all over the world. No one was left untouched by the story of the cruel impact of war upon love, the story of love, loyalty, and duty.
At the Brussels Fair International Film Festival other Soviet films were shown. | remember the showing of Sergei Gerasimov’s “And Quiet Flows the Don” (from the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, now Nobel Prize Winner). On the screen we saw the limitless expanses of the Don steppes, we heard the lapping of the waves ef the Don River. Then shots rang out. World War I.
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