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Uniform Title:в семья равноправных. English.
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Title:Family of Equals 1984, 1984.
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Publication:Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2019.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (video file 0:25:02) : Sound, Colour.
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Links:Streaming video
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Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
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Notes:Reproduction of: в семья равноправных USSR, 1984.
The British Film Institute
Description based on online resource (viewed on 30 April, 2019).
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Summary:Documentary countering international claims of anti-Semitism, which aims to illustrate the satisfaction of Russian Jews living in the Jewish Autonomous Region. The film opens with old newsreels showing the work of Jewish people to build a nation for themselves within the Soviet Union. It includes footage from the establishment of the capital Birobidjan in 1934. The narrator contrasts the old images of clearing land and agriculture with modern scenes of factories and urbanisation. There is an interview with a worker who tells of her happiness and equality, and with an American journalist invited to the city. Later in the film there is a section about the Second World War, and an interview with a Soviet war hero whose family were executed during the Holocaust; he now sits at the head of the Anti-Semitism Committee. The flourishing of the arts and music in the Jewish community is also considered, with particular focus on the violin; this section includes footage of violin lessons and an interview with a renowned Jewish musician. The celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Birobidjan mark the end of the film. The final claim made by the narrator is that the people of all the Soviet nations are now all Soviets, all equals in the same nation.
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Variant and related titles:Socialism in film: the cold war and international propaganda. Module III, Culture & Society.
- Format:Visual Material
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Series:Culture & Society
Politics & Society
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Credits:Contributors: Itskov, Igor; Yeniefahov, Jorgi.
Production Company: Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow.
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Subjects:Agricultural workers
Agriculture and farming
Anti-Semitism
Communism
Ethnic minorities
Genocide
Holocaust
Industry
Judaism
Music
Nazism
Religion
Second World War (1939-1945)
Socialism
Zionism
Post-1975
Documentary
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Genre/Form:Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
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Also listed under:Itskov, Igor, Script.
Vorontsov, Alexander, director.
Yeniefahov, Jorgi, Camera.
Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow, production company.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14120747