October:
The Bolshevik Revolution. Take year to develop national film industry. Private
companies resist nationalization- doesn’t supply government theaters, etc.
1918 – Narkompros (the People’s
Commissariat of education) takes charge of regulating the film industry.
July: State Commission of Education- restricts sale of film stock-
private companies hoard stock.
1919 – August:
Nationalization of the film industry, Foundation of the State Film School.
1920 – Lev Kuleshov joins the
State Film School and forms his workshop.
Sergie
Eisenstien (Engineer) (works at propaganda delivery in civil war), starts
workers theatre-1920 Vsevolod Pudovkin (Chemist), acting debut in play put on
by STATE FILM SCHOOL.
ALL
inspired by DW Griffith- Intolerance/BirthofANation (Fairbanks and Pickford),
films that kept circulating because of small Russian output.
None
of MONTAGE school where important film makers of PRE-REVOLUTION.
1921 – The New Economic Policy
is instituted (NEP). More private production.
1922 – Formation of Goskino,
the state film distribution monopoly.
1923 – Publication of Sergei
Eisenstein’s essay, “Montage of Attraction”
1924 – Kino-Eye, Dziga Vertov
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in
the Land of the Bolsheviks, Lev Kuleshov
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| The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks |
1925 – January:
Formation of Sovkino, the new government distribution monopoly and production
company
Strike, Sergei
Eisenstien
Potemkin,
Sergei Eisenstien
The
Death Ray, Lev Kuleshov
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| Strike |
 |
| Battleship Potemkin |
1926 – Mother, Vsevolod Pudovkin
The Devil’s Wheel, Grigori Kozinstev and Leonid Trauberg
The
Cloak, Grigori Kozinstev and Leonid
Trauberg
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| Mother |
1927 – Soviet film output
income tops foreign imports.
Zvenigora, Alexander dovzhenko
The
House on Trubnoya, Boris Barnet
The
end of St. Petersburg, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Moscow
in October, Boris Barnet
SVD,
Grigori Kozintsev and Leolid Trauberg
 |
| Zvenigora |
 |
| The House on Trubnoya |
1928 – March: The First
Communist Party Conference on Film Questions is held.
October (aka Ten Days That Shook the World), Sergei Eisenstien
The Heir of Ghenghis-Khan (aka Storm over Asia), Vsevolod Pudovkin
Lace,
Sergei Yutkevish
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| Storm over Asia |
 |
| October |
Down play of character
psychology as cause, focuses on social causes forces...often not one single
protagonist, collective heroes/ social groups
Avoided well know actors,
uses no professionals- uses TYPAGE (type casting)
By end of 20’s 4 films
apiece. Decline not caused by economic factors/industrial factors but by
political pressures discouraging MONTAGE.....seen as too intellectual, esoteric
1929 - Sergei Eisenstien begins
travel that will keep him abroad until 1932. He go study sound for film at
Hollywood.
The New Babylon, Grigori Kozintsev and Leonind Trauberg
My
Grandmother, Kote Mikaberidze
China
Express (aka Blue
Express), Ilya Trauberg
Man
with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov
Arsenal,
Alexander Dovzhenko
Old
and New (aka The
General Line), Sergei Eisenstien
 |
| My Grandmother |
1930 – Formation of Soyuzkino,
a centralized company to control all production, distribution, and exhibition.
Earth, Alexander
Dovzhenko
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| Earth |
1931 – Alone, Grigori Kozintsev and
Leonid Trauberg
Golden
Mountains, Sergei Yutkevich
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| Alone |
 |
| Deserter |
STALIN and SOVIET encourage simple films
1933 - Deserter, Vsevolod Pudovkin
1934 – Official government policy is for SOCIALIST REALISM style, depiction of revolutionary development but REALIST style.
Ref: Thompson, K., & Bordwell, D. (2003). Soviet Cinema in the 1920's. In Film History: An Introduction (2nd ed., p. 128). McGraw-Hill.
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