In Spring (1929)

Original title

Навесні

Directed by

Mikhail Kaufman

Genre

documentary film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 19m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent documentary captures the arrival of spring in the Soviet Union. It shows seasonal changes, daily life, and natural scenes through an avant-garde lens.

observationalpoeticquietexperimentalnostalgiccontemplativeabstractrhythmic

What happens

In Spring (Russian: «Весной», romanized: Vesnoi, Ukrainian: «Навесні», romanized: Navesni) is a 1929 Soviet silent experimental documentary directed by Mikhail Kaufman. It was the first independent work of the cinematographer, made in accordance with the ideas of the avant-garde manifesto Kinoks and was Kaufman's directorial debut. According to some Russian media, at the end of the 20th century the film was considered lost; a copy was discovered in 2005 at an archive in Amsterdam. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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