For You at the Front!
From the start, Vertov made himself known as an irreconcilable enemy of “acted films,” which he regarded as a violation of truth. At the peak of World War II, however, such lofty artistic principles proved impractical. Vertov’s poetic and patriotic For You, Front! is a fiction film with a script and two actors. In a letter to her fiancé, a soldier on the front, Saule asks if there is anything he needs from “our beloved Kazakhstan.” Yes there is, he replies: lead, which can be used to make bullets to kill the enemies of “our beloved country.”
- Year: 1942
- Country: Soviet Union
- Genre: War, History
- Studio: TsOKS
- Keyword: woman director, great patriotic war
- Director: Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova
- Cast: Nurpeis Baiganin
