Kino-eye ; Three songs about Lenin

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Kino-eye: excerpts from newsreels and documentary films of Soviet life in the early 1920s made by Vertov and his "Kino-Eye" group. Highlighted are the activities of Soviet children and youth of the...

Kino-eye: excerpts from newsreels and documentary films of Soviet life in the early 1920s made by Vertov and his "Kino-Eye" group. Highlighted are the activities of Soviet children and youth of the Young Pioneers and Young Leninists interwoven with Vertov's cinematic experiments. A documentary showing a society fresh from revolution, buoyed by idealism.

Three songs about Lenin: Lenin as revealed through the eyes of the Russian people, represented by three songs. "My face was in a dark prison," concerns the life of a young Muslim woman. "We loved him" deals with Lenin's life and death. "In a big city of stone," shows the accomplishments of his rule.

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