Name: Pravda
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1970

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Documentary

Release Date

Jan 1970

Premiere Information

New York opening: 21 May 1970

Production Company

Centre Européen pour le Cinéma, la Radio et la Télévision; Dziga-Vertov Group

Distribution Company

Grove Press

Country

France

Synopsis

The setting of the film is Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion of 1968. In an imaginary conversation in which they attack Soviet revisionism, narrators Vladimir and Rosa (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg) discuss, among other topics, the evolution of Communism, the state of the proletariat, and the problems of bureaucracy. The images in the film are dominated by the color red; the recurring visual metaphor is a red rose, which is finally destroyed. The film ends with a view of a truck moving toward the left and flying a red flag while a revolutionary song is played. However, since the camera is tracking left, the red flag disappears to the right in the final scene.