Russian Central Studio of Documentary Film () is a Russian film studio, founded in 1927. It was the largest Soviet

newsreel A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the mid 1970s. Typically presented in a cinema, newsreels were a source of current affairs, informa ...

and documentary

cinematography Cinematography (from ancient Greek κίνημα, ''kìnema'' "movement" and γράφειν, ''gràphein'' "to write") is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens to focu ...

studio. It is headquartered in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

History

Studio traced its history from 1927, when a special newsreel division of

Sovkino Goskino USSR (russian: link=Yes, Госкино СССР) is the abbreviated name for the USSR State Committee for Cinematography (Государственный комитет по кинематографии СССР) in the Soviet Union. It w ...

was formed. In 1931 it was reorganized into All-Union Newsreel Factory (). Since 1936 known as Moscow Newsreel Studio, and since 1940 as Central Newsreel Studio. From 1944 until 1993, it was known as Central Studio for Documentary Film or CSDF (russian: Центральная студия документальных фильмов, ЦСДФ). In

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

, the CSDF was responsible for some newsreel series, like: * News of the Day / "Новости дня", * Foreign Newsreel / "Иностранная кинохроника", * Soviet Sports / "Советский спорт", * Soviet Cinema / "Советское кино", * Pioneria / "Пионерия" In 1944–1946 the studio director was Sergei Gerasimov. The studio produced a number of documentary films about the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ...

, including ''

Moscow Strikes Back ''Moscow Strikes Back'' (russian: Разгром немецких войск под Москвой, ''Razgrom Nemetskikh Voysk Pod Moskvoy'', "Rout of the German troops near Moscow") is a Soviet war documentary about the Battle of Moscow made du ...

'', winner of the 1942

Academy Award for Best Documentary The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to '' Kukan'' and ''Target for Tonight''. They have since been best ...

Filmography

Secret and Explicit (The Aims and Acts of Zionists) ''Secret and Explicit'' (Russian title: ''Тайное и Явное'') is a Soviet antisemitic propaganda film released in 1973. The film reused footage from '' Der Ewige Jude'' (The Eternal Jew), a 1940 antisemitic Nazi propaganda film. Plot ...

* Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoi Ukraine i izgnaniye nemetsikh zakhvatchikov za predeli Ukrainskikh sovetskikh zemel (1945) * The City That Stopped Hitler: Heroic Stalingrad * Stalingrad (1943) * Bitva za nashu Sovetskuyu Ukrainu (1943) * Narodniye mstiteli (1943) * Den voyny (1942) * Den novogo mira (1940)

References

External links

Central Studio for Documentary Films – Film Catalogue // Net-Film – Newsreels and documentary films Archive

Official site RCSDF
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