Thee small number of Russian films which were shown in Britain in the late 1920s and early 1930s excited the attention of British filmmakers and writers, and played a central role in developing ideas about film as an art-form. In particular this influence was felt in the British documentary film work of such key figures as John Grierson and Paul Rotha.
This unique and fascinating release explores this influence through the formal and thematic relationships between Viktor Turin's extraordinary, yet little-seen, silent documentary Turksib (1929), and a number of British documentary films, including the celebrated Night Mail (1936).
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In the early 1930s, a small number of Soviet propaganda films were shown in Britain that excited local filmmakers who were then developing their ideas of film as an art form. The Soviet Influence, a new BFI Dual Format Edition strand, explores the impact that these ...
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