Movie·1937·0h 55m

In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze

Ardent Fighter for the Cause of the Working Class, for the Cause of Communism, Fearless LeninistBolshevik, Friend and Comrade-in-Arms of Stalin the Great

Directed By

Yakov Bliokh

Country

Soviet Union

Language

Russian

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The Story

Original title: Серго Орджоникидзе

The film is about the life and work of Grigory Ordzhonikidze Konstantinoviche, an important personality in both the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The film includes speeches by his bereaved friends who attended his funeral. In 1937, after the unexpected death of Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Vertov received an urgent order from the government to produce a film about the life of Ordzhonikidze. He was ordered to work together with Yakov Bliohom and the director of the film "Battleship Potemkin" distributed by Goskino (Soviet State Committee for Cinematography).

Producer

Margarita Kafieva

Music

Isaak Dunayevsky

Themes

soviet union

Production House

Central Studio of Documentary Films