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Turksib is a 1929 Soviet documentary film directed by Viktor Alexandrovich Turin documenting the building of the Turkestan–Siberia Railway. The rail line stretched northeast from Tashkent to Almaty and on to Novosibirsk. The film contrasts the open desert and sand, with the order of rails and the movement of machines. The Turkic people ride horses and camels and rear sheep. This drama is set against the dry steppe…
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Documentaries, if they deal with sufficiently exotic subject, can be as interesting the audience as the live action films. They can also serves as a powerful propaganda tool. Soviet Union, with its large swaths of remote, barely explored and sparsely populated territories that were going to rapid industrialisation during the First Five-Year Plan (1928 – 1932), provided plenty of opportunity for both. One such opport…More
