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Three Songs About Lenin
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Wikipedia article
'Three Songs About Lenin' (, 1934) is a documentary sound film by Ukrainian-Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov. It is based on three admiring songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. It is made up of 3 episodes and is 57 minutes long.
In 1969 it was re-edited by Elizaveta Svilova, Ilya Kopalin and Serafima Pumpyanskaya as part of the 1970 Lenin centenary.
The songs in the film
The film opens with some texts on Lenin, and then continue with three episodes. The first episode opens with the music from the second movement of Beethoven's piano sonata Pathtique, adapted for orchestra. It then moves to the first song 'My face was in a gloomy prison'. The first episode lasts about 19 minutes. The second episode opens with the third movement (funeral march) of Chopin's piano sonata in b-flat minor, adapted for orchestra. In the middle section of the second song, Vertov uses Wagner's 'Siegfried's Funeral March' in 'Gtterdmmerung', the last installment of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen'. The third song 'In a big city made of stone', where Tchaikovsky's 'Waltz of the Flowers' is used.
Home media
This film was restored and released in home media (BD and DVD) by Flicker Alley and Eureka.
References
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