CIN201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gerasimov Institute Of Cinematography, Vladimir Lenin, Economy Of The Soviet Union
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Central difference between the german cinema of the weimar period and the. Soviet cinema of the pre-stalin revolutionary era is the importance of theory to the development of the latter. Underdeveloped film industry prior to crucial developments. Influential role of a dominant art movement. Decline linked to changes in political climate. Domestic companies began to emerge around 1907. Emergence of some important directors in the early teens revealed a style quite different from that adopted in the post-revolutionary period. Pre-revolutionary industry"s interests were not shared by those of the bolshevik government. The newly installed bolshevik government needed to unify the country and convince the soviet populace to support its policies. Film would become instrumental in the government achieving those goals. In 1919, the film industry was nationalised under the educational commissariat. Initial conditions made expanded film production all but impossible. Cinema is for us the most important of all the arts - vladimir lenin.
