Enthusiasm (Donbass Symphony)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Enthusiasm (Donbass Symphony) |
| Original title | Энтузиазм (Симфония Донбасса) |
| Country of production | USSR |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1931 |
| length | 65 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dsiga Wertow |
| script | Dsiga Wertow |
| production | Ukrainfilm |
| music |
Nikolai Timofejew Dmitri Shostakovich |
| camera | Boris Zeitlin |
| cut | Yelisaveta Svilova |
Enthusiasm (Donbass Symphony) (Original title: Энтузиазм: Симфония Донбасса entusiasm: Simfonija Donbassa ) is a Soviet documentary film of the studio Ukrainfilm of Dziga Vertov from the year 1931st
action
A young woman sits at the radio and listens to different sounds with headphones and also the music of an orchestra, which can be seen. The sounds from the headphones accompany the film for a long time, because they are part of the possibilities that the still young sound film offers the sounds and the music.
To peal of old Orthodox churches preferably older people are shown that when entering the temples praying the sanctuaries kiss their faith and cross themselves. In addition, recordings of men who drink a lot of alcohol are shown alternately, who can then no longer stand on their feet because they are too drunk. But then another time is announced with a siren . Young people and working people march with music on the church premises to clear the roofs of the crosses and to install the red flag and a Soviet star to the cheers of hundreds of workers . All church relics are also removed from the houses, accompanied by an orchestra of socialist workers' songs, which can be used as clubs for the Komsomol and the working people in the future .
In Donbass, the fulfillment of the five-year plan for coal production is in danger. Since the important steel works also need hard coal , young people are recruited across the country to support the miners. In special trains they are driven to their locations with large farewell ceremonies. Before they are allowed to work in the shaft, they first have to learn the individual necessary hand movements and movements above ground. In comparison to the exercises, film recordings of the actual processes in the mines are shown. At public meetings, so-called shock workers declare that they undertake to meet the required standard in any case. The pictures then show the production processes in the steelworks in order to prove how important the extraction of hard coal is, because without coal no steel can be produced.
Further images show huge fields of grain being mowed with machines. The subsequent processing is almost exclusively done by women who also feed the grain into the threshing machines . During the breaks there is always time for singing and dancing. The pauses are also used to emphasize again and again in speeches that everything only serves to build socialism . This is also emphasized by the constantly appearing sequences of proud marching workers, Komsomol and armed Red Army soldiers who accompany the entire film.
Production and publication
The black and white film had its premiere on April 2, 1931 under the title Энтузиазм (Симфония Донбасса) in the Soviet Union .
In the GDR, the film was shown for the first time under the title Sinfonie des Donbass on December 2, 1972 by the State Film Archive of the GDR in the Berlin cinema Studio Camera at Oranienburger Strasse 54. Further announcements of the film in the following years were made under the titles of the Donbass Symphony and the Donbass Symphony . In March 2019, the film was shown in the Berlin Arsenal cinema under the title Entusiasm (Simfonija Donbassa) in the original version from the collection of the Austrian Film Museum with German subtitles.
Web links
- Enthusiasm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 1, 1972, p. 10