Russian Central Studio of Documentary Film () was a Russian film studio, founded in 1927. It was the largest Soviet

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and documentary

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studio. It is headquartered in

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History

Studio traced its history from 1927, when a special newsreel division of

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was formed. In 1931 it was reorganized into All-Union Newsreel Factory (). Since 1936 known as Moscow Newsreel Studio, and since 1940 as Central Newsreel Studio. From 1944 until 1993, it was known as Central Studio for Documentary Film or CSDF (). In

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, the CSDF was responsible for some newsreel series, like: * News of the Day / "Новости дня", * Foreign Newsreel / "Иностранная кинохроника", * Soviet Sports / "Советский спорт", * Soviet Cinema / "Советское кино", * Pioneria / "Пионерия" In 1944–1946 the studio director was Sergei Gerasimov. The studio produced a number of documentary films about the

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, including ''

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'', winner of the 1942

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Filmography

* Secret and Explicit (The Aims and Acts of Zionists) * Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoi Ukraine i izgnaniye nemetsikh zakhvatchikov za predeli Ukrainskikh sovetskikh zemel (1945) * The City That Stopped Hitler: Heroic Stalingrad * Stalingrad (1943) * Bitva za nashu Sovetskuyu Ukrainu (1943) * Narodniye mstiteli (1943) * Den voyny (1942) * Den novogo mira (1940)

References

External links

Central Studio for Documentary Films – Film Catalogue // Net-Film – Newsreels and documentary films Archive

Official site RCSDF
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