Our Russian Front

Our Russian Front is a 1942 American documentary film directed by Joris Ivens and Lewis Milestone, and narrated by Walter Huston to promote support for the Soviet Unions war effort.

The New York Times reports that the greatest battle in history was assembled by Lewis Milestone and Joris Ivens into a tersely contemporary document. They note that it did not rank favorably when compared to great documentaries because its commentary was uninspired, and it attempted to crowd too much within a timeframe ofminutes, resulting in it being only a synoptic account of the Russian war effort. They granted that as a record of the Russian peoples struggle, it is a heartening account, and communicated the urgency of this urgent moment. The reviewer noted that the film was a picture of total war, from the bayonets and shells of the front lines, to the efforts of the peasants and laborers and scientists struggling to support the war effort, sharing that in such circumstances, there are no noncombatants in this war.In Russians in Hollywood, Hollywoods Russians biography of an image, author Harlow Robinson writes that of the several proSoviet documentaries made in Hollywood, the most important were Our Russian Front, directed in 1942 by Lewis Milestone for Artkino Pictures and the Russia Relief Organization, and The Battle of Russia, directed in 1943 by Anatole Litvak and Frank Capra as part of the Why We Fight series. ........

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