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The Famine and The Fight Against It (1922)
Directed by Nikolai Saltykov
Documentary, Drama
A documentary fiction propaganda film about the famine in Ukraine in 1921-1922. Among the causes of the catastrophe, in addition to drought, the film mentions the consequences of revolutionary events. It shows swollen children, destroyed factories and plants, burning villages, dead cattle, and a number of actions aimed at helping the victims: the work of the Commission for the Relief of the Starving under the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, the organization of feeding stations, workers donating their three-day salary to help the famine victims, etc. The very first film made in Odesa under the auspices of the newly founded VUFKU in nationalized pavilions that until recently belonged to film magnates Kharytonov and Borysov.
Cast
Leonid Chembarsky
Bella Beletskaya
Crew
- Director
- Nikolai Saltykov
- Writer
- Mikhail Kapchinsky
- Director of Photography
- Yevgeni Slavinsky, Louis Forestier
Details
- Original title
- Голод і боротьба з ним
- Release date
- 1922-01-01
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Original language
- UK
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- Russia