
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925

Representation Score
Fair
1925
Director
Dziga Vertov
Runtime
19 minutes
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Dziga Vertov’s newsreel serves as a tool to promote a new, secular, and labor-centric social order. It succeeds by aggressively challenging traditional Western cultural institutions and replacing individualist frameworks with class-conscious empowerment. However, the film's narrow focus on Marxist-Leninist ideas results in a total absence of LGBTQ+ or disability-focused narratives. The lens remains strictly directed toward class-based solidarity and physical labor.
Category Breakdown
The film focuses entirely on the collective mobilization of workers and farmers. There are no depictions of non-traditional gender identities or queer stories.
Women are shown as active, important contributors to industry and agriculture. The film highlights the 'New Soviet Woman' through the lens of collective work.
The film addresses the oppressed nations within the Soviet Union. It uses the peasantry as a symbol for a broader, multi-ethnic revolutionary struggle.
The film prioritizes secularism and atheism, viewing religious structures as outdated. It celebrates the dismantling of traditional Western hierarchies like religion and capitalism.
There is no significant focus on visible or invisible disabilities. Characters are primarily shown through the lens of physical labor and collective strength.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: First anniversary of Lenin's death / Smycka of the city and the village: group of peasants visit Moscow / Lenin's effect on peasants and oppressed nations

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