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(Moscow: 1935), pp. 5—6. It was only after 1945 that some three dozen German films
from the Nazi period went into Soviet distribution. These included the following anti-
British propaganda films: Der Fuchs von Glenarvon [The Fox of Glenarvon, 1940;
Soviet release title: Vozmezdie (Retribution), 1949]; Das Herz der Königin [The
Heart of the Queen, 1940; Soviet release title: Doroga na eshafot (The Path to the
Scaffold), 1948]; Mein Leben für Irland [My Life for Ireland, 1941; Soviet release title:
Shkola nenavisti (School for Hatred), 1949]; Ohm Krüger [Uncle Kruger, 1941;
Soviet release title: Transvaal’ v ogne (The Transvaal in Flames), 1948]; Titanic
[1943 but never released in Nazi Germany; Soviet release title: Gibel’ Titanika (The
Sinking of the Titanic), 1949]. See: M.Turovskaya (ed.), Kino totalitarnoi epokhi
1933—1945/Filme der Totalitären Epoche 1933—1945 (Moscow: 1989), pp. 45—6.
99 Doklad, p. 148.
100 ibid., p. 57.
101 ibid., p. 150.
102 Rome’s Cine-Città was also cited with approval: Yuzhnaya baza sovetskoi
kinematografii (Kinogorod) [The Southern Base for Soviet Cinema (Cine-City)]
(Moscow: 1936), p. 18.
103 ibid., p. 16.
104 Osnovnye polozheniya planovogo zadaniya po yuzhnoi baze sovetskoi
kinematografii (Kinogorod), [The Basic Propositions of the Planned Project for a
Southern Base for Soviet Cinema (Cine-City)] (Moscow: 1936), p. 3.
105 ibid., pp. 9—10.
106 Yuzhnaya baza, pp. 20—6.
107 Osnovnye polozheniya, p.11.
108 ibid.
109 ibid., pp. 12, 58.
110 See above, n. 99.
111 B.Z.Shumyatskii, Sovetskaya kinematografiya segodnya i zavtra [Soviet Cinema
Today and Tomorrow] (Moscow: 1936), p. 50. This is the published text of the report
delivered by Shumyatsky to the Seventh All-Union Production and Thematic
Conference on 13 December 1935.
112 Osnovnye polozheniya, pp. 96—7.
113 As can be seen from the increasing hostility and mockery in newspaper reports
appearing throughout 1937 in Kino and Sovetskoe iskusstvo, e.g.: D.Alekseev,
‘Zadachi sovetskogo kino’ [The Tasks of Soviet Cinema], Sovetskoe iskusstvo, 5
July 1933, p. 3; idem, ‘Nemoshchnyi opekun’ [‘The Powerless Guardian’, i.e.
Shumyatsky], Sovetskoe iskusstvo, 23 July 1937, p. 3; idem, ‘Vygodnaya professiya’
[A Profitable Profession], Sovetskoe iskusstvo, 23 September 1937, p. 5, or the
comments made at the First All-Union Congress of the Union of Film Workers at the
end of September: see ‘Na s”ezde rabotnikov kino’ [At the Film Workers’ Congress],
Sovetskoe iskusstvo, 29 September 1937, p. 5. Kino was less outspoken, probably
because Shumyatsky, as head of the State Directorate for the Cinema and
Photographic Industry (GUKF), still had nominal control over its contents. See the
reports of the congress in Kino, 17 September 1937, p. 2; 24 September 1937, p. 2;
29 September 1937, pp. 2—3.
114 G.Ermolaev, ‘Chto tormozit razvitie sovetskogo kino?’ [What Is Holding Up the
Development of Soviet Cinema?], Pravda, 9 January 1938, p. 4; FF, pp. 386—7.