A Sixth Part of the World - Шестая часть мира - La Sesta Parte del Mondo
URSS - 1926 - 74' - Full version - versione integrale
English subtitles - sottotitoli italiani (a cura di Luigi Morganti)
A Sixth Part of the World is a 1926 silent film directed by Dziga Vertov and produced by Kultkino and Sovkino. Through the travelogue format, it depicted the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and detailed the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on Soviets diversity, the film is in fact a call for unification in order to build a "complete socialist society". A mix between newsreel and found footage, Vertov edited sequences filmed by eight teams of kinoks (or kinokis) during their trips. According to Vertov, the film anticipates the coming of sound films by using a constant "word-radio-theme" in the intertitles.
Thanks for posting, but for an English-speaking viewer it's confusing when the subtitles say, "The Capital", instead of, "Capital" . For instance, the "Golden chain of [the] Capital," "In the service of [the]Capital", etc. Since Vertov is a Soviet filmmaker making a propaganda film about the benefits of his new Communist nation, he's not referencing "the capital" of a city or country, but rather the Marxist meaning of "capital," i.e., the wealth that forms the basis of capitalism.
desertdawg70 3 months ago
@desertdawg70 I fixed subtitles, in Italian we use "il Capitale" (the Capital) in the Marxist meaning. Thanx
lewmork 3 months ago