Videoteca

Between 1922 and 1925, a total of 23 issues of Dziga Vertov’s newsreel series KINO-PRAVDA (KINO-TRUTH) appeared (albeit irregularly and in very few copies). Vertov’s goal was to create a kind of ‘screen newspaper’; the title is a tribute to the newspaper Pravda founded by Lenin. Just like the KINONEDELJA (KINO-WEEK) newsreel series (1918-19), the KINO-PRAVDA issues offer a fascinating insight into the early Soviet Union and demonstrate the rapid development of Vertov’s film language. The 22 surviving issues (No. 12 is lost) have been digitized and subtitled in German and English by the Austrian Film Museum.

Movies from this collection

Kino-Pravda No. 1
1922 star_border 5.6

Kino-Pravda No. 2
1922 star_border 5.1

Kino-Pravda No. 3
1922 star_border 4.8

Kino-Pravda No. 4
1922 star_border 4.7

Kino-Pravda No. 5
1922 star_border 5

Kino-Pravda No. 6
1922 star_border 5

Kino-Pravda No. 7
1922 star_border 5.7

Kino-Pravda No. 8
1922 star_border 5.8

Kino-Pravda No. 9
1922 star_border 5.9

Kino-Pravda No. 10
1922 star_border 5.8

Kino-Pravda No. 11
1922 star_border 4.5

Kino-Pravda No. 12
1922 star_border 7

Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution
1922 star_border 5.3

Kino-Pravda No. 14
1923 star_border 5.6

Kino-Pravda No. 15
1923 star_border 5

Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel
1923 star_border 6

Kino-Pravda No. 17
1923 star_border 5.3

Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
1924 star_border 5.6

Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean
1924 star_border 5.2

Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
1924 star_border 5.3

Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925 star_border 5.2

Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
1925 star_border 4.9

Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
1925 star_border 5.4

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