Solomon Kogan

Cinerama's Russian Adventure

Following an introduction by Bing Crosby, the Cinerama screen widens for scenes of landscapes, cities, peoples, and entertainments of the Soviet Union. Highlights include the historic buildings and churches of Moscow, as the Kremlin; its subway and streets, a spring carnival, the seaside resorts on the Black Sea, a trip down the Volga River, skiers, a troika racing along a snow-covered road, a helicopter view of the North Pole, an Antarctic whale hunt, the capture of a wild boar in the Moyun-Kum of Central Asia, a race by reindeer-drawn sleds, divers in the Sea of Okhotsk, battling an octopus, the capture of antelopes, rafting logs down the Tisza River, and the development of new towns in Siberia. Other scenes include a visit to the Moscow Circus, where the renowned clown Oleg Popov performs, the dancing of the Moiseyev and Piatnitsky companies, and excerpts from the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater Ballet.

First Spring

A film about the development of virgin and fallow lands in Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Volga region.

USSR Air Fleet Day

A documentary about the aviation holiday in Tushino on July 27, 1952.

USSR Air Fleet Day

The film tells about the aviation holiday in Tushino on July 8, 1951.

Victory in the South

The film is about the encirclement and defeat of the Iasi-Kishinev group of German troops during the Second World War by Soviet troops.

Caucasus

The Battle for the Caucasus in 1942-1943 was one of the turning points in the entire Great Patriotic War.

One Day of War

"This film follows one day in the heroic struggle of the Soviet people against the German Fascist invaders." A Day of War (Den voyny), a chronicle of total war filmed on all fronts as well as at the rear, was produced by the Central Studio of Documentary Films; shot by 160 newsreel cameramen on June 13, 1942, the 356th day of the Great Patriotic War; superbly assembled by M. Slutsky; and released on October 22, 1942. Its cameramen were informed of the actual date of shooting only two days before work commenced.

The Mannerheim Line

Produced by the Soviet Union to justify its 1939-40 Winter War campaign in Finland, this outstanding documentary---more than any other such cinematic record---visually depicts the much vaunted Mannerheim Line in all its actual emplacements, as seen but two weeks after their capture, and as filmed by Red Army combat photographers onsite, directed by Vasili Belayev.