Unprecedented campaign

Unprecedented Campaign is a constructivist documentary soviet film about the movement for rural development, within the bounds of which 25 000 workers were sent to villages by the Communist Party in 1929. It was shot at the huge Gigant sovkhoz (Soviet farm), the Kharkiv Tractor Factory, and the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. This is a paradoxical film, which depicts a village in a way more common to city representation. In spite of its completely propagandistic approach, the film combines Kinok's industrial enthusiasm with the pantheistic softness of Dovzhenko's movies. (Odessa International Film Festival)