Filmikunsti ajalugu
The revolution and the end of the 1st world war lead to an economic crisis.
During the war/beginning of the revolution: 1919 nationalisation of the major film companies.
Most of the pre-war filmmakers and producers fled??. Lack of film stck due to important
embargos.
Soviet cinema after the october revolution: 1919 the first film school: bring the cinema to the
countryside. Agit trains-theatergroup performing a pie ce of communism.
New generation of filmmakers start to create avant-grade: verto, kuleshov, pudovkin
dovzheno, eisenstein
The age of soviet montage cinema: the classical perion 1920s.
The idea behind montage cinema:
· promotion of communist ideals via the means of film
· editing is the tool to achieve new expression, a new cinematic language
· two tendencis: eisenstein: reproduction of historiccal events in feature films.
· Vertov: radical realism, only documentary films, feature films are ,,impotent"
The kuleshov workshop