Browse Hierarchy RUS5030: Russian Documentary Film

You will examine the ways in which documentary film has been used in Russia both to record life and to shape it. You will trace the use of documentary film to trace and interpret revolution and industrialisation in the 1920s and 1930s, World War Two, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet life, paying particular attention to how filmmakers from Vertov to Sokurov have exploited the genre's formal possibilities: framing, editing, various aspects of sound, including music, voice-over commentary, noises, and the interview.