Open AccessSOVIET ANTI-RELIGIOUS FILM. “SECTARIANS” BY VLADIMIR KOROLEVICH (1930)
Author(s) -
Е. В. Головнева,
Ivan A. Golovnev
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
religiovedenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7575
pISSN - 2072-8662
DOI - 10.22250/2072-8662.2021.3.151-159
Subject(s) - movie theater , historiography , religiosity , period (music) , state (computer science) , phenomenon , presentation (obstetrics) , cultural revolution , sociology , media studies , political science , law , aesthetics , history , art history , art , politics , philosophy , epistemology , medicine , algorithm , radiology , computer science
The article examines a unique phenomenon of Soviet cinema - the anti-religious film of the 1920s-1930s - a question insufficiently explored in humanitarian historiography so far. Being an organic part of the “cultural revolution”, on the one hand, anti-religious films of this period acted as an effective tool for the propaganda of the Soviet state in the fight against both the official church and manifestations of everyday religiosity. On the other hand, their creation was accompanied by detailed theoretical and methodological recommendations on the forms of interaction of party propagandists with the audience, and on the formats for the presentation of anti-religious attitudes. Based on previously unpublished archival materials, the authors bring to the fore one of the most indicative of such films titled “Sectarians” shoot by Vladimir Korolevich (Sovkino, 1930). The authors consider the film as a document of that time and analyze processes that ran parallel with one another in the Soviet culture and policy...