Author: Strauss, Theodore.
Title: The Russian Story: A Film Cavalcade of a Thousand Years of Russian Heroism. (Program).
Description: Artkino Pictures, 1943. 1943. - Octavo, softcover. 4-page program printed in brown on cream-colored paper, consisting of a pictorial title page, credits & 2 pages of text. There is some light creasing, including a horizontal crease where the program has been folded. Very good

The Russian Story was a compilation film, edited by George Freedland and produced by Joseph Burstyn with English text by Theodore Strauss. Morris Carnovsky was one of the readers of the text. This program is for the premier showing at the Stanley presented by Joseph Burstyn and Artkino Pictures. The film is a compilation of scenes from fiction films by twenty-two Russian directors, among them Eisenstein, Dovzhenko and Pudovkin with scores by fifteen Russian composers, including Shostakovich and Prokofieff. "The Russian Story" was sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship which describes it in the program as "a film that unfolds in an exciting historical pageant [of] the heroism and determination of the Russian people in withstanding foreign invasion throughout the past thousand years" culminating in "the courage, resourcefulness and efficiency with which for two full years the Soviet Union has resisted the Nazi onslaught."

Rare. Very good .

Keywords: FILM; HISTORY; RUSSIA; SOVIET UNION; FILMS; MOVIES; COMPILATION FILM; THE RUSSIAN STORY; WARS; INVASIONS; NAZIS; JOSEPH BURSTYN; GEORGE FREEDLAND; THEODORE STRAUSS; ARTKINO PICTURES; NATIONAL COUNCIL OF AMERICAN-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP; PROGRAM; PREMIER; MORRI

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