the Cultural heritage of the first post-war years is not only movies. Heroically filmed a documentary chronicling the filmmakers used the 40’s and 50’s and all the subsequent generations of filmmakers. Along with the films of the postwar years, these frames today realistic show us the exploits of the individual soldier and the whole nation.
After the war, Soviet cinema, like all cultural industries of our country, it required time for rehabilitation. Behind was the evacuation of “Lenfilm” and “Mosfilm” in Central Asia, where two major studios-the competitors for the first time created the movie together. A refrain of two eras – war and post-war – was “Ivan the terrible” by Sergei Eisenstein, the shooting of which was interrupted in Moscow in the beginning of the war and continued in Alma-ATA. The first part of the film was successfully released in early 1945. Premiered at the cinema “Drummer”. The film was enthusiastically welcomed by the Soviet intelligentsia, and was awarded the Stalin prize. Second part of the movie was sharply criticized by Stalin, sent back for revision and was released only in 1958, after the death of the Director.
In the postwar years, the cinema of the Soviet Union, releasing a minimal amount of movies, hiding like a noble beast in front of a giant leap, says Maria Lemesheva. “Before becoming one of the leading and highly profitable global industries, Soviet cinema has gone through a difficult phase, which the researchers called neologism “the malokartinya”. It was difficult, but a unique time: the Soviet people long for art and filled the cinemas, where he watched Russian paintings, many of which have become classics, as well as the so-called trophy films taken from German archives by soldiers-winners. This period in the history of cinema have shaped the genre, which to this day removed war films. He set the tone for the entire industry for many years and has developed a special film language, where the motifs of true heroism, and keen sense of justice, emotional drama and subtle humor.”
In 1945, as in 2020, the Victory Parade held on June 24. Video of the Grand event were more than 100 operators. Some of them used brought from Berlin German color film, so the version of the documentary about the great event was released in two color options – color and black and white. After the official premiere in the Kremlin movie long broadcast in all theaters of the country. Unfortunately, part of the footage was defective because of the rain. The famous episode with the cast on the ground by Soviet soldiers Nazi banners – improvisation, which was not originally planned in the script of the parade.
the following year, the undisputed hit of the cinemas became a Comedy ��of Yemen Tymoshenko “heavenly slug”, filmed in 1945 the war at “Lenfilm”. The picture is remembered by the audience for its brilliant play of the actor Nikolai Kryuchkov – his smiling face was perfect for the collective image of a Soviet soldier that defeated fascism. Also this picture today and remember fans Faina Ranevskaya: the actress has played the role of Professor of military medicine. Special attention deserves the musical content of the work: the song “First of all – airplanes” and “get their way” have become classics.
However, people want to see not only the heroism of Soviet soldiers, but far from reality tales that allows you to forget about the horrors of war at least for a while. This story gave the filmmakers Hope Kosheverova and Michael Shapiro, who directed the motion picture “Cinderella.” 20 days after the taking of the Reichstag, the arts Council “Lenfilm” has taken the script of the main Soviet storyteller Evgeny Schwarz without a single correction. The main role was invited 37-year-old actress Janina German. The film was released only in 1947, breaking censorship barriers. For the sake of increasing revenues from film screening to Soviet audiences was widely shown captured movies captured by the red Army in Reichsfilmkammer. As a rule, it was the American, French, English, Italian, Austrian, Czechoslovak and, of course, the German picture. Thus, our compatriots learned about the still popular character Zorro (in the Soviet box office film was called “Mysterious sign”), about Robin hood, and appreciated, how they look on the screen of the beloved the three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.
of Course, the aesthetics and the issue of films of the postwar period has little in common with modern Russian cinema. However, this does not prevent many generations to show a keen interest in the characteristics of the cinema of that era. The first films of the postwar years has helped millions of people to survive the most terrible time in Soviet and world history, has inspired the revival of the war-torn country, new achievements in science, art, sports. This “overcoat”, came out of the Soviet cinema as a special cultural phenomenon.
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