"Production Mezhrabpom Film" "Screenplay and Direction:" "D. Vertov Assistant:" "E. Svilova" "Photography:" "Surenskii, Magidson, Monastirstkii" "Sound:" "Shtro" "Composer:" "Shaporin" "Orchestra:" "Blok" "Three Songs of LENIN" "In every corner of the planet Earth, in the countries of Europe and America, in hot Africa and beyond the Polar circle, they sing songs of Lenin, the friend and deliverer of every slave." "No one knows the nameless authors of the songs, but the songs themselves pass from mouth to mouth, from tent to tent, from hut to hut, from mountain camp to village on the plain." "Our film has been made out of three such songs from the Soviet East." "One song is of woman, throwing off her veil, of electricity, brightening the mountain village, of water, flowing through the desert, of the illiterate, reading and writing, of that which is ILYICH-LENIN" "One song is of the October Revolution, of that which is ILYICH-LENIN" "One song is of the war for a new and happy life of that which is" "Ilyich" "LENIN" "The room in Gorki where Lenin died, its windows face the park." "Here is the bench we know from the photograph..." "SONG ONE "My face was in a black prison"" "My face was in a black prison" "I was threading along my life as if I was blind" "Without knowledge I was an unchained slave" "But then the sun of Lenin's truth dawned upon me" "We'd never seen it before" "We'd never heard his voice" "But he was so close to us - like our father or even closer" "No single father did for his children as much as Lenin did for us" "MY State farm" "MY State farm" "MY country" "MY land" "MY land" " Do you see the mark?" " I do." " And the bull's eye?" " Clearly." " Hold your breath." " OK." " When you feel you're ready, shoot." " OK." " The target is easy." " I see." " Get ready to shoot." " OK." "Pull the trigger and discharge the cartridge." "If he saw darkness, he made light" "He turned deserts into orchards and he turned death into life" "MY university" "MY factory" "MY collective farm" "MY collective farm" "MY collective farm" "He convinced the weak and the poor" "That a million pebbles could make a mountain" "A million grains could make a harvest" "And a million weak people could make the strongest force ever" "MY family" "MY hands" "STEEL hands" "MY party" "He gave to us everything he had" "His brain, his blood and his heart" "SONG TWO "We Loved Him..."" "We loved him like we loved our steppes or even more" "We'd have given all our dwellings, our steppes and our lives" "To bring him back to life" "Neither us, nor the grandchildren of our grandchildren will forget him!" "He founded our party made of steel" "He relentlessly built it up year by year" "He instructed it and made it firm" "In constant struggle" "He was indefatigable in his work" "His clever eyes shone and were full of irony" "Look at his welcoming smile" "Look at his ardent, inspiring speeches to the masses" "THE FOUNDER OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL" "THE LEADER OF WORLD COMMUNISM" "THE LOVE AND PRIDE OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING CLASS" "THE BANNER OF THE DOWNTRODDEN EAST" "THE HEAD OF THE WORKERS' DICTATORSHIP IN RUSSIA" "He was simple and straight in his manner;" "the Russians called him just ILYICH" "He lived in a hut;" "in a hut beyond the marshes" "In this place in July and August 1917 in a hut made of twigs the leader of the World October lay hidden from his pursuers and wrote his book." "We have built a monument of granite" "The Workers..." "In October he led them into battle" "through breakdown" "yet they come" "through cold" "YET THEY COME" "through hunger" "YET THEY COME" "through fire" "YET THEY COME" "THEY ARE LED BY" "ILYICH LENIN" "STAND TOGETHER" "BRAVELY FORWARD AGAINST THE FOE" "TO US VICTORY IS ASSURED" "THE POWER OF THE LANDLORDS AND CAPITALISTS IS BROKEN IN RUSSIA" "AND WILL BE CONQUERED THROUGHOUT ALL THE WORLD" "LENIN" "Ah, now he moves not" "LENIN" "Ah, he is silent..." "THE MASSES" "MOVE" "THE MASSES" "ARE SILENT" "YOUR HERITAGE AND YOUR WORK WE SHALL COMPLETE" "HOW OFTEN HERE ON THIS RED SQUARE" "We saw him - the LIVING Lenin!" "SONG THREE "In the big stone city"" "In Moscow" "In the big stone city" "In a square there stands a tent" "And in it lies LENIN" "And if you should ever be in sorrow" "Then go you to this tent and look on LENIN" "And your grief will pass away from you, like water" "And your grief will pass away from you, like water" "And your sorrows float away, like leaves upon the brook" "The day is bright" "And I'm so happy" "Dancing in the street" "For my mother and father" "We're happy" "Why shouldn't we dance?" "The spring is in full blossom" "Our life is become sturdy and joyful" "True is our Lenin path" "And on every sector of the front," "step by step, we are conquering for Socialism our huge country." "I was working on the dam across the River Dnieper, handling cement to supply the crane in bay 34." "We poured 95 baskets of the stuff into the body of the dam." "When we pulled out one of the baskets and levelled the concrete," "I noticed that a piece of pitched paper roofing had fallen on the freshly laid surface." "I picked it up and put it back in its proper place." "But suddenly I lost my balance." "At first, I grabbed the stairway." "But I wasn't able to hold onto it." "Everybody got very frightened." "Another girl started screaming and our foreman pulled me out." "I was completely covered in liquid concrete and soaked to the skin." "To the skin." "My face was covered with concrete and my hands were stained by liquid tar." "They pulled me out and took me upstairs to the drying room, where there was a small heater." "I went back to my post and I worked until the end of my shift." "THE DNIEPERSTROY BUILDING FACILITY" "I was awarded the Order of Lenin for fulfilling production quotas." "NO FORTRESS IS INSURMOUNTABLE FOR THE BOLSHEVIKS" "This magnificent structure is our greatest memorial to the builder of Communism and the first made to bring electrification to the Soviet Union, Comrade Lenin." "If LENIN could see our country now" "I am 63 years old." "This year I have harvested 5,500 kgs of wheat." "When I brought it to the state evaluator, there was a special meeting and festivities." "If all collective farm workers worked as hard as I did..." "We're working relentlessly, notwithstanding the fact that we have no flour." "I feel that our leaders are speaking real words of wisdom." "These words must be written down and remembered." "They must be passed on to everyone when you return home." "We want to do everything the way our leaders tell us." "You want to lead a life on the collective farm in the right way." "You may think of how it was in the past, but the Bolsheviks reject any retreat." "You must not think of past difficulties but always look to the future, how to proceed forwards." "It is not easy, you have to live through it and digest it, to understand how to approach it." "And only after you understand it all, may you act." "If LENIN could see our country now!" "OUR Oil" "OUR coal" "OUR metal" "If LENIN could see our country now!" "Our Magnitostroy" "If LENIN could see our country now!" "If LENIN could but see our country now!" "If LENIN could see our country now!" "STAND FIRM" "STAND TOGETHER" "ONWARDS BRAVELY AGAINST THE FOE" "TO US VICTORY IS ASSURED" "THE POWER OF THE LANDLORDS AND THE CAPITALISTS" "IS BROKEN IN RUSSIA" "AND WILL BE CONQUERED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD" "OCTOBER" "CENTURIES WILL MARCH ACROSS THE FACE OF THE EARTH" "WITH IRON HEELS" "AND PEOPLE WILL FORGET THE NAMES OF THE COUNTRIES" "WHERE THEIR ANCESTORS USED TO LIVE" "BUT THEY WILL NEVER FORGET THE NAME OF LENIN" "THEY WILL REMEMBER HIS NAME FOREVER" "THE END"