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Three Songs About Lenin
Three Songs About Lenin
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THREE SONGS ABOUT LENIN

Три песни о Ленине

Directed by Dziga Vertov
Soviet Union, 1934
Documentary

Synopsis

Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin’s role in creating them.

Synopsis

Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin’s role in creating them.

Our take

Pioneering documentary filmmaker Dziga Vertov directed this collage celebrating Vladimir Lenin on the tenth anniversary of the revolutionary’s death. Posthumously recut in 1970 to remove Stalin’s presence, the surviving version of the film remains a masterpiece of early avant-garde cinema.