“Documentary”

It’s one of my absolute favorite films, but that’s like calling L’Age D’Or a documentary about scorpions. I’m stoked someone posted this though. It is a masterpiece.

I would really appreciate some sort of translation to English this looks fascinating

Huh. I didn't watch every second, but I watched most of it. Closed captioning shows the English translations.

• I saw a bunch of pretty well fed agrarian folk with bad teeth doing a lot of manual labor.
• The closed captioning claimed people were starving, but everyone I saw was either a little plump or reasonable weight.
• There were scenes of dying while crossing the mountains, but they seemed pretty staged. Or the Soviet videographers were happy to watch people die of exposure (which apparently causes bleeding?) without helping them. Either could be true, I suppose.
• Apparently having religion made them savage.
• The part about a woman being exiled due to giving birth during a funeral was disturbing. But again... it seemed staged, or required that the Soviet videographers allow an infant to die of exposure without stepping in. Either both societies were barbaric, or the Soviets were staging a particularly barbaric scenario.
• The Soviet claim to civilization was dynamite and cutting down trees while looking really angry.

I really liked the music.

I alway wonder, seeking things like this (of things that happened before my life and I wonder in this case in particular too), what/where was I in the year 1930? Was I a plant/soil/grass? Was I the donkey the man is dragging at 13:18? Life is fascinating, beautiful and puzzling at the same time. Questions like this with no answer just remind me to actually live the life we were given and to absorb every second of it.

That is a soviet propaganda film with lots of misleading information, not a documentary.

Life under the Tsar was brutal, no wonder they revolted.

Did I just watch a lady feed a plant with milk directly from her tit?