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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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