Anvil Orchestra

The History of the Civil War, a film by Dziga Vertov

A new century of war

Carmen Gray / November 22, 2021

CINEMA: Thought lost forever, Dziga Vertov’s 1921 archive of the Russian Civil War finally debuts to the public 100 years later.

Anvil Orchestra, Black Sea, cinema, Communist Party, Dziga Vertov, IDFA, Konstantin Grinberg Vertogradsky, militarism, moscow, Nikolai Izvolov, Romanovs, Russian Revolution, The History of the Civil War, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, White Guard

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