- Description:
- DVD - Region 1.   viewing copy.   4 videodiscs of 4..
color and b/w.  
fullscreen.   sound.  
- Notes:
- A compilation of animated Soviet propaganda films spanning from 1924-1984. Each disc includes short “film overview” documentary written and directed by Joan Borsten, featuring interviews with scholars and filmmakers.
Supplemental materials include booklet with essay by Igor Kokarev.
Titles
+ Black & White
- Director:
- Ivanov-Vano, Ivan; Amalrik, Leonid
- Production Co:
- Mezrabpornfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1933
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Based on the poem of the same name and drawings by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Based on Mayakovsky’s experience of Cuba, the film tells the story of Willie, the shoe shine boy, who makes the fatal mistake of asking the White Sugar King “Why should white sugar be made by a black man?”
+ Mister Twister
- Director:
- Karanovitch, A.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm Studio
- Running Time:
- Short.   16 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1963
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation
+ Someone Else’s Voice
- Director:
- Ivanov-Vano, Ivan
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1949
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- In this film for children, a Soviet bird returns home from abroad and gives a concert. When she sings jazz, a new kind of music she learned on her travels, the Soviet birds boo and hiss and drive her from the forest.
+ Ave Maria
- Alternate Title:
- Against American Aggression In Vietnam
- Director:
- Ivanov-Vano, Ivan
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1972
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- An anti-war, anti-America and anti-church animation scored to Schubert’s “Ave Maria.”
+ Millionaire, The
- Director:
- Bordzilovsky, Vitold; Prytkov, Y.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1963
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- A rich American woman leaves a million dollars to her beloved bulldog.
+ Shooting Range
- Director:
- Slatkin, V.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   19 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1979
- Language:
- Russian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- Sound. Based on a play by V. Slatkin.
An unemployed American gets a job in a shooting gallery as a live target.
+ Mr. Wolf
- Director:
- Gromov, V.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1949
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- A wealthy American retires with his family to the “Island of Peace.” All is well until oil is discovered and greed trumps Mr. Wolf’s peaceful attitudes.
+ Cinema Circus
- Director:
- Amalrik, Leonid; Khodataeva, Olga
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1942
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- An animated short “political poster” that ridicules Hitler and his cronies.
+ Fascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland
- Director:
- Ivanov, Alexander.; Vano, I.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1941
- Language:
- Russian intertitles with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- Musical accompaniment taken from the popular march “Our Armor Is Strong.” A political film-poster made in the first months after the Nazi invasion of the USSR.
+ Vultures
- Director:
- Sasonov, P.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1941
- Language:
- Russian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- Fascist invaders portrayed as vultures.
+ Newsreels #1-4: “What Hitler Wants,” “Beat Fascist Pirates,” “Strike The Enemy On The Front lines And At Home,” and “A Mighty Handshake.”
- Director:
- Brumberg, Valentina; Brumberg, Zenajeda; Ivanov, Alexander; Khodataeva, Olga; Ivanov-Vano, Ivan
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1941
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- Four animated shorts from World War II.
+ To You Moscow
- Director:
- Lomidze, G.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1947
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- An animated history of the city of Moscow, including the Nazi invasion, made to honor the city’s 800th anniversary.
+ Adventures Of The Young Pioneers, The
- Director:
- Pekar, V.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1971
- Language:
- Russian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- Boy scouts and girl scouts defy German forces occupying their village by flying a Soviet flag over Nazi headquarters.
+ Pioneer’s Violin, The
- Director:
- Stepantsev, B.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1971
- Language:
- Russian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- A Nazi soldier tries to force a young Soviet boy scout to play a German song on his violin. Instead he defiantly plays the Soviet national anthem and is shot by the Nazi.
+ Vasilyok
- Director:
- Aristakesova, S.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1973
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- Vasilok searches everywhere for his grandfather, and finally discovers he was a war hero.
+ Lesson Not Learned, A
- Director:
- Karavaev, V.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1971
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- A disguised Nazi slips into the US zone of divided Germany. The Americans nurse him back to health as he plots how to reunite the Fatherland. His plans are ruined when he runs headlong into the Berlin Wall.
+ Attention! Wolves!
- Director:
- Gamburg, Yefim
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1970
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- A child is found in the wilderness of West Germany living with wolves. He is captured and trained by ex-Nazis.
+ Tale Of A Toy
- Director:
- Ablinin, B.
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1984
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- In a German concentration camp Russian prisoners fashion a Don Quixote doll from a bit of metal. It becomes their symbol of hope.
+ We Can Do It
- Director:
- Atamanov, Lev
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1970
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- An anti-war film about the ability of individuals to prevent war.
+ Interplanetary Revolution
- Director:
- Khodataev, Nikolai; Komisarenko, Zenon; Merkulov, Yuri
- Production Co:
- Goskino Technikum Mezhrabpom-Rus Studio
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1924
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Fervent Bolsheviks export the Revolution to Mars. When the capitalists escaping Earth arrive on Mars, they find the comrades already there, having a party congress beneath a banner of Lenin.
+ We’ll Keep Our Eyes Peeled
- Director:
- Khodataev, Nikolai
- Production Co:
- Nikolai Khodataev Group
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1927
- Language:
- Russian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Britain’s foreign secretary tries to sabotage development the fledgling Soviet Union with a trade embargo. Defiant Soviets buy government bonds and a new industrial nation is born.
+ Shareholder, The
- Director:
- Davidov, Roman
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   24 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1963
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- An American worker believes that owning a share in the factory where he works will give him a say in the running of the company and save him from poverty.
+ Proud Little Ship
- Director:
- Bordzilovsky, Vitold
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1966
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- Boy scouts build a miniature of the battleship Aurora, which according to Bolshevik history fired the first shot of the Revolution. The ship sails around the world in the name of “Soviet Friendship,” only to be pursued by evil Capitalist sharks.
+ Prophets And Lessons
- Director:
- Kotonochkin, Vyacheslav
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1967
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- A political film poster about the failure of capitalism to halt the USSR’s success.
+ China In Flames
- Alternate Title:
- China On Fire
- Director:
- Khodataev, Nikolai; Merkulov, Yuri; Komisarenko, Zenon
- Production Co:
- Goskino Technikum Kino Moscow
- Running Time:
- Short.   37 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1925
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A film protesting foreign intervention in the Chinese economy.
+ Forward March, Time!
- Director:
- Tarasov, Vladimir
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1977
- Language:
- Russian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- Animated film based on the ideological poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky.
+ Soviet Toys
- Director:
- Vertov, Dziga
- Production Co:
- Goskino U.S.S.R.
- Running Time:
- Short.   11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1924
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent. Considered to be the first animated Soviet film. Based on political caricatures by V. Deni from the newspaper “Pravda.”
+ Samoyed Boys
- Director:
- Brumberg, Valentina; Brumberg, Zenajeda; Khodataev, Nikolai; Khodataeva, Olga
- Production Co:
- Third Factory of Sovkino
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1928
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A Nenetz (Eskimo) boy exposes the tricks of his tribe’s shaman.
+ Music Box, The
- Director:
- Khodataev, Nikolai
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1933
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- An animated adaptation of a chapter of Saltikov-Shedrin’s novel “Story of One Town.”
+ Lenin’s Kino Pravda (Truth In Cinema)
- Director:
- Unknown (presumed to be Vertov, Dziga)
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1924
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
- Silent. Credited to Dziga Vertov. The capitalist countries celebrated Lenin’s death in 1924, which they expected to bring the demise of the USSR. Instead, 100,000 more Soviets joined the Russian Communist Party.
+ Results Of The XII Party Congress Of Cooperation
- Director:
- Unknown
- Running Time:
- Short.   4 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1925
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent. Animation extolling the virtues of working together and collectivization.
+ Victorious Destination
- Director:
- Amalrik, Leonid; Babichenko, Dmitry; Pokolnikov, Viktor
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1939
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- A celebration of the achievements of Stalin’s first three 5-Year Plans. The film applauds the Party’s destruction of millions of peasant farmers considered to have capitalist psychology, and trumpets the achievements of mythical coal miner Alexei Stakhanov, who exceeded all norms for productivity.
+ War Chronicles
- Director:
- Babichenko, Dmitry
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1939
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- The story of the invasion of Russia, during the revolution, by foreign troops from the West.
+ Hot Stone, A
- Director:
- Sarkissian, Perch
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1965
- Language:
- Russian with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- An old man’s memories about the glorious Revolution, based on a story by A. Gaidar.
+ Songs Of The Years Of Fire
- Director:
- Kovalevskaya, Inessa
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1971
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Female Directors
- Notes:
- An animation of famous songs from the Civil War period.
+ Plus Electrification
- Director:
- Aksenchuk, Ivan
- Production Co:
- Soyuzmultfilm
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- USSR
- Year:
- 1972
- Language:
- Russian language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- A celebration of the USSR’s drive to bring electricity to every town and village.