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Enthusiasm (The Symphony of Donbass)

Dziga Vertov
1930 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 1h05 Russian

An appeal is launched to alleviate a coal shortage and achieve the objectives of the USSR’s five-year plan. Against a backdrop of military marching music and industrial sounds, the miners of Donbass set to work en masse.


Screening in collaboration with the experimental cinema department of the Musée national d’art moderne, presented by Philippe-Alain Michaud, curator and head of the department.

Production :
Kyivska Kinofabryka / Ukrainfilm
Photography :
Boris Cejtlin / K. Kualev
Sound :
Pjotr Shtro
Editing :
Elizaveta Svilova / Dziga Vertov
Music :
Nikolaï Timofeev
Copy contact :
Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM - Centre Pompidou