Leo Tolstoy and Dziga Vertov: A Double Portrait in the Interior of the Epoch

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Leo Tolstoy and Dziga Vertov: A Double Portrait in the Interior of the Epoch (2015)

Directed by Galina Evtushenko, Anna Evtushenko

Documentary · 57m

In the year of Leo Tolstoy's death, Dziga Vertov, an unknown boy from Bialystok, was 14 years old. The elder of Yasnaya Polyana could not know either the name or the work of the documentary filmmaker, the founder of non-fiction cinema as a high art. However, the film is structured as a parallel movement of creative aspirations, views and biographies of two artists. In his best paintings ("Kinoglaz", "Man with a Movie Camera", "Symphony of Donbass" and others), Vertov followed the basic aesthetic principles of Tolstoy, supported and developed the traditions of Russian classical literature on the screen. One of the main episodes of the film is a screen story about the Moscow agricultural exhibition of 1923, which reveals the common focus of the writer and director's efforts.

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Crew

Director
Galina Evtushenko, Anna Evtushenko

Details

Original title
Лев Толстой и Дзига Вертов: Двойной портрет в интерьере эпохи
Release date
2015-01-31
Runtime
57m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
RU
Spoken languages
Russian
Countries
Russia