For You at the Front! (1942)
From the start, Vertov made himself known as an irreconcilable enemy of “acted films,” which he regarded as a violation of truth. At the peak of World War II, however, such lofty artistic principles proved impractical. Vertov’s poetic and patriotic For You, Front! is a fiction film with a script and two actors. In a letter to her fiancé, a soldier on the front, Saule asks if there is anything he needs from “our beloved Kazakhstan.” Yes there is, he replies: lead, which can be used to make bullets to kill the enemies of “our beloved country.”
Directors: Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova.
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Nurpeis Baiganin as Kazakh Musician |
| Directing | Dziga Vertov | Director |
| Directing | Elizaveta Svilova | Director |
| Camera | Boris Pumpyanskiy | Camera Operator |
| Writing | Dziga Vertov | Writer |
| Directing | S. Pumpianskaia | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Boris Pumpyanskiy | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Vasiliy Velikanov | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Gavriil Popov | Original Music Composer |
