Archangelsky Mujik
(ARKHANGELSKY MUJIK)

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mujik.jpgStalin's forced collectivization of Soviet farmers during the 1930's was a failure, creating an ineffective system of agriculture. The collective farms were unable to meet set goals and provide badly needed food for a starving population. A simple man from Archangel, Nikolai Semenovich Sivkov, courageously and openly started opposing the system. Sivkov decided to modernize his father's old farm by himself. A veritable "Jack of all trades," hard-working, crafty, and stubborn, fully cognizant of modern technology, he fought the neighboring collective farm and the local Party leadership, which tried to do everything in their power to stop Sivkov private venture. The film revealing this one man's struggle against the authorities became onre of the most powerful films of this period. Russian. 60 minutes, 1989







credits
  • EKRAN - TV, USSR

  • Director and Cinematographer; MARINA GOLDOVSKAYA
  • Script; ANATOLY STREL'ANIJ
  • Music; MARINA KROUTOJARSKAYA
  • Sound; VIKTOR KRASILNIKOV
recognition
  • Grand Prix of the International Electronic Film Festival; Cannes, France
  • Best Documentary Of The Year; the Top National Prize; Moscow, USSR
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