In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze

12/25/1937

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0hr 55min

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Documentary

Ardent Fighter for the Cause of the Working Class, for the Cause of Communism, Fearless LeninistBolshevik, Friend and Comrade-in-Arms of Stalin the Great

STORY

The film is about the life and work of Grigory Ordzhonikidze Konstantinoviche, an important personality in both the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The film includes speeches by his bereaved friends who attended his funeral. In 1937, after the unexpected death of Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Vertov received an urgent order from the government to produce a film about the life of Ordzhonikidze. He was ordered to work together with Yakov Bliohom and the director of the film "Battleship Potemkin" distributed by Goskino (Soviet State Committee for Cinematography).

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Joseph Stalin
  • Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze
  • Vasiliy Kachalov
  • M. Lebedev

    Directors

  • Yakov Bliokh
  • Dziga Vertov
  • Klavdiya Kulagina
  • Elizaveta Svilova

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Central Studio of Documentary Films

    Production Countries

  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • Russian