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	HU OSA 317-0-1
Fonds 317:	Collection of Miklós Kun Relating to the 20th Century History
Series 1:	Documentary films relating to the history of communism
Container list:	VHS

1. The White Sea Channel (propaganda film)
   "In order to strengthen the economical connections between the republics of the Soviet Union, Moscow has to be a port of five seas. Therefore the Party, with the directives of Stalin, decided to build a canal that connects the Baltic and the White Seas. " A special insight into the lives of the Soviet forced labour camps.
   Director: A. Lemberg; Producer: Sovkino Soviet Union/Russian language; 1935, 33 min
   Solovki (Labour camps in Solovki, 1927-28) (propaganda film)
   Soviet film that represents the life in Solovki as if wasn't a forced labour camp but a sanatorium. The Solovetsky Islands were the site of the first Soviet forced labour camps, the SLON (Solovetsky special purpose camp), which held mostly political prisoners. The camp functioned from 1923 to 1939.
   Director: A.A. Cherkasov; Producer: Vostokfilm Soviet Union/Russian language; 1928, 80 min
   Parade of Gymnasts of the Soviet Union, 1945 (propaganda film)
   Gymnasts of 16 republics of the Soviet Union introduce their performances on the Red Square, Moscow. Grandiose and festive celebration of Stalin.
   Director: V. Beliaiev, I. Venzher Soviet Union/Russian language; 1945, 60 min
   
   
2. Secret and Manifest. Goals and Actions of the Zionists (propaganda film)
   According to the film's narrative Zionosm is idetical with imperialism. Film interprets Zionism as anti-Soviet international conspiracy.
   Soviet Union/Russian language, 87 min
   Manifest anti-semitic film.
   They Live (fiction film)
   A down-on-his-luck construction worker discovers a pair of special sunglasses that allows him to see that the world is being controlled by ugly aliens disguised as normal-looking humans…
   Director: John Carpenter; Producer: Larry Franco; Copyright holder: Alive Films United States/English language/Voice-over: Russian; 1988, 93 min
   
   
3. Film Without Title - Working Russia (documentary film)
   Chronicle of events of October 1993, Moscow from communist perspective. Excerpts from various news and political television programs are also part of the film. War scenes and blood in Moscow streets. Tanks and gunfight, badly wounded and dead people, hospitals.
   Russia/Russian language; 1993, 135 min
   
   
4. Burial Ceremony of Stalin/Ďîőîđîíű Ĺ.Â. Ńňŕëčíŕ (propaganda film)
   Final tribute to the "Great Leader of Nations". General mourning. Funeral ceremony, Red Square, Moscow. Endless rows of Moscow people, representatives of various Soviet Republics and towns, countries from all over the world on the day of the funeral, March 9, 1953. On the top of the Mausoleum:         Viacheslav Molotov, Kliment Vorosilov, Georgii Malenkov, Nikita Khruschev,     Lavrentyii Beria. Funeral orations. Laying of the coffin in the Lenin Mausoleum. Closing event: military parade on the Red Square, Moscow.
   Soviet Union/Russian language; 1953, 72 min
   Out of Innocent Heart (propaganda film)
   Celebrating the 70th birthday of Stalin. Exhibition of presents of all sorts to the "Leader of the Nations". Kremlin, Moscow.
   Producer: Documentary Film Studio Russian language; 1949, 16 min
   Secret and Manifest. Goals and Actions of the Zionists (propaganda film)
   According to the film's narrative Zionosm is idetical with imperialism. Film interprets Zionism as mereley anti-Soviet international conspiracy.
   Soviet Union/Russian language, 87 min
   Manifest anti-semitic film.
   
   
5. Devils Don't Dream! (documentary film)
   Investigating the Story of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Guatemala. Interviews with the widow, Maria Vilanova di Arbenz, who's in excile in Costa Rica.
   Director: Andreas Hoessli Switzerland/English language; 1995, 90 min
   
   
6. Trotsky (documentary film)
   Revolutions and exile. Investigates the life and death of Trotsky.
   Director: Patrick Le Gall; Producer: IMA productions; Copyright holder: FR3, La Sept English language; 1989, 60 min
   Lots of Soviet archival footage. Also, home movies from Trotsky's life in Mexico form part of the film.
   The Forgotten Holocaust. The Gipsy Holocaust (documentary film)
   Between 1939 and 1945 more than 250 thousand of Europian Gipsies were rounded up and deported to ghettos and concentration camps where they were gased or starved to death. This is the Gipsy Holocaust and like its Jewish counterpart effected almost every country in Europe. The film investigates the survivors. Lots of archival footage from the 1940s.
   Director: George Case; Producer: Paul Hamann; Copyright holder: BBC English language; 1989, 48 min
   
   
7. For the Power of the Soviets!/Çŕ âëŕńňü ńîâĺňîâ! (documentary film)
   Film about the Moscow events in October 1993 and the future of Russia from communist perspective. Gennadii Ziuganov is interviewed.
   Russia/Russian language; 1996, 120 min
   Lots of archival footage of the battles.
   
   
8. Governors of Empire, Part 1 & 2/Birodalmi helytartok I-II. (documentary film)
   Film about the communist dictatorship in Hungary, with the focus on Mátyás Rákosi, the Nagy Imre group and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
   Director: Tamás Tóth; Producer: MTV Dokumentumfilm Stúdió Hungary/Hungarian language; 1996, 112 min
   Lots of excerpts from Soviet and Hungarian archival newsreels used.
   
   
   
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10. Zhirinovskii in Moscow, August 6, 1994. (political program)
    Mass Meeting of the so-called "Liberal Democrat Party of Russia".
    Russia/Russian language; 6-Aug-1994, 60 min
    
    
11. Zhirinovskii in Iraq (political program)
    Russian language, 60 min
    
    
12. On the Other Side of the Blockade (October 1993.) (political program)
    Russian language, 74 min
    
    
13. Cossacks at Terik (documentary film)
    Russian language, 26 min
    Press meeting with P. Grachov on the war against the Chechens (political program)
    Russian language, 5 min
    Russian Television programs 1991-1994, relating to the war in Chechnia (news)
    Russian language, 120 min
    
    
14. From Double-Headed Eagle to Hammer and Sickle (propaganda film)
    Russian language, 160 min
    
    
15. In Stalin's Arms (documentary film)
    Russian language, 28 min
    
    
16. Gulag I.
    
    
    
17. Gulag II.
    
    
    

Online version updated: 6 January 2012