Life in Your Hands
1930·Soviet Union (USSR)·72 min.
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The film is about a change in the way of life in the city and the countryside. The cursed legacy for the young state are drunkards and truants, who have not yet rebuilt their lives in the new social conditions. But life is changing: the inhabitants of the commune dormitory, a huge, cubist-style house, “orderly” run in the morning for exercise, eat in the canteen, which resembles a factory conveyor belt. This propaganda film is interesting because of its imagery: The “connection between the city and the village” is represented by a montage of fast-moving shots of harvesting by factory workers and students.
DirectorDavid Maryan
ScreenwriterDavid Maryan
CinematographyGeorgi Khimchenko
Original titleZhizn v rukakh