A Sixth Part of the World

A Sixth Part of the World Russian , Shestaya Chast Mira , sometimes referred to as The Sixth Part of the World, is a 1926 silent film directed by Dziga Vertov and produced by Kultkino part of Sovkino. Through the travelogue format, it depicted the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and detailed the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on cultural and economic diversity, the film is in fact a call for unification in order to build a complete socialist society. A mix between newsreel and found footage, Vertov edited sequences filmed by eight teams of kinoks kinoki during their trips. According to Vertov, the film anticipates the coming of sound films by using a constant wordradiotheme in the intertitles. Thanks to A Sixth Part of the World and his following feature The Eleventh Year 1928, Vertov matures his style in which he will excel in his most famous film Man with a Movie Camera 1929.

Its a fantastic travelogue and anthropological document. Lenins mausoleum is his alone at this time 1926. The moral everyone produces and is building socialism. It starts with slavery and ends with developing countries joining the socialist revolution.In an interview for Kino magazine in August 1926, Vertov explained his intentions A Sixth Part of the World is more than a film, than what we have got used to understanding by the word film. Whether it is a newsreel, a comedy, an artistic hitfilm, A Sixth Part of the World is somewhere beyond the boundaries of these definitions it is already the next stage after the concept of cinema itself Our slogan is All citizens of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics fromto 100 years old must see this work. By the tenth anniversary of October there must not be a single Tungus who has not seen A Sixth Part of the World quoted in Barbara Wurms essay in the DVD booklet ........

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