04 Ave Maria, 1972, I Ivanov-Vano Soyuzmultfilm

4. Ave Maria, 1972, I. Ivanov-Vano. Soyuzmultfilm.

Also known as Against American Aggression in Vietnam, this film is as
anti-war as anti-American and portrays the Church as an actively malignant
social influence. Underscored by Schuberts Ave Maria. Ivanov-Vano,
who worked as an animator on some of the animation films made in the 20s
such as China in Flames, went on to become the USSRs foremost director
of animated films for children.

Vladimir Paperny (writer and cultural historian): I think that propaganda
goals of the 70s and the 30s and the 40s were quite different. In the 40s and
the 30s, and even before, the idea was to project the Soviet Union as a very
powerful, very invincible warrior, something that doesnt compromise and
just fights to the very end, something very menacing, aggressive and
something that everybody should fear. In the 70s, the Soviet Union was
presented as the defender of humanitarian values, as a fortress of the
fight against barbarism. You can see it in Ave Maria. The sound track is
Schuberts Ave Maria, a religious song, and the imagery is icons,
paintings of the Madonna with a child. The official Soviet ideology was
atheism and despite this, those religious images were supposed to present
the Soviet Union as the new defender of humanity and humanitarian bounds.

Total Running time: 9:34 min.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• СССР
• пропаганда
• съветска
• империализъм
• комунизъм
• USSR
• propaganda
• imperialism
• communism
• soviet
• animation
• анимация
• 1972
• russian
• capitalism

[euzkatroika]

amazing!