Following in the footsteps of Lenin's "Iskra". Part one

Videos and films

ID:: 65544
Place: Lviv Carpathians
Date:: 1970
Genre:: Amateur film
Technique:: 35mm film
Color:: black and white
Sound:: Sound
Collection: Ukrainian Society of the Deaf (USD)
Description: The first part of the film. Lviv during the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A man carves a spark for his pipe and hides from the scrutiny of the mounted police. A gendarme watches the inhabitants of a Galician village. A blacksmith carves a spark to work with metal. The gendarme stops a peasant on a hay wagon to check, but finds nothing. The blacksmith passes the issue of the banned newspaper "Iskra"( Spark), hidden in the furnace, on the hay cart to Lviv. The film is a video sequence with an overdubbed musical soundtrack and sound effects, including the sound of the spark from a flint. The film features amateur actors from the Ukrainian Society for the Deaf in Lviv region. For this film, the Kameniar studio was awarded the title of People's Studio in 1972.
Language:: Ukrainian, Russian
Tags:: deaf, cinema, film, city, communism, newspaper, propaganda, police, folklore