A feature length documentary taken by the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, showing the incremental street battles and the major assaults waged against the counter revolutionaries..
Soviet Union
The first thing that strikes you is the smell the film itself can’t record yet somehow transmits: cordite, wet wool, horse sweat, the copper tang of freshly opened arteries. Istoriya grazhdanskoy voyny is not a tidy ledger of campaigns but a wound that keeps reopening under the projector lamp. Shot between 1918 and 19...
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Nikolai Izvolov
William F. Adler
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" The first thing that strikes you is the smell the film itself can’t record yet somehow transmits: cordite, wet wool, horse sweat, the copper tang of freshly opened arteries. Istoriya grazhdanskoy voyny is not a tidy ledger of campaigns but a wound that keeps reopening under the projector lamp. Shot between 1918 and 1921 by camera units attached to the Red Army, the negative was spliced together decades later by Nikolai Izvolov under the spectral supervision of Dziga Vertov’s theoretical ghost. ..."
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