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115 To make matters worse, this figure included a number of films carried over from
previous years.
116 For details of the prizes awarded in January 1935, see: Iskusstvo kino, no. 1 (January
1935).
117 Leonid Trauberg: interview with the author, March 1983.
118 Related to the author by a Soviet cinema historian who wished to remain
anonymous, March 1983.
119 FF, pp. 386—7.
120 In an editorial entitled ‘K novomu pod”emu’ [Towards a New Advance], Kino, 11
January 1938, p. 1.
121 ‘Fashistskaya gadina unichtozhena’ [The Fascist Cur Eradicated], Iskusstvo kino, no.
2 (February 1938), pp. 5—6; FF, pp. 387—9.
122 See above, n. 2. Ironically, his old enemy from the days of the ‘proletarian
hegemony’, Vladimir Kirshon, was shot the previous day. Both have been
posthumously rehabilitated but the only biography of Shumyatsky was published in
Siberia: B.Bagaev, Boris Shumyatskii. Ocherk zhizni i deyatel’nosti [Boris
Shumyatsky. A Sketch of His life and Activity] (Krasnoyarsk: 1974).
123 V.E.Vishnevskii and P.V.Fionov, Sovetskoe kino v datakh i faktakh [Soviet Cinema
in Dates and Facts] (Moscow: 1973), p. 116.
124 ibid., p. 123.
125 Interview with the author, April 1985.
126 Vishnevskii and Fionov, p. 170.
127 Leonid Trauberg, one of the directors closest to Shumyatsky, and Yuli Raizman in
separate interviews with the author, March 1985.