Director: Inessa Kovalevskaya
Release Date: 1971
Rating: ★
Review:
One could see ‘Songs of the Years of Fire’ as the Soviet answer to ‘Fantasia’.
This propaganda film features songs from the Russian civil war (1917-1922). These songs are accompanied by revolutionary and shamelessly patriotic images of the brave soviet army, to which the film is dedicated.
The resulting film is as graphically interesting as it is boring and sickening. It’s hard to believe such blatant propaganda could be made as late as 1971.
‘Songs of the Years of Fire’ is available on the DVD box set ‘Animated Soviet Propaganda’
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October 9, 2016 at 05:00
kristof
” It’s hard to believe such blatant propaganda could be made as late as 1971″. Who wrote this? Briliant animation.
October 9, 2016 at 12:44
Gijs Grob
I did. Indeed, the animation is fine, but I was referring to the film’s content.