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V 122

Ni žalob, ni stonov... (Neither complaining, nor moaning...)
Handwritten draft for a poem with plenty of corrections. Vertov mentions the film "Aviamarš" by Michail Kaufman, made in October 1934.
Classification: Handwritten Diagram or Document
Type: Poem
Date: 1934, ca.
Tapematerial: Paper with Handwriting
Original / Reproduction: Original
Comments: Compared to the other Vertov autographs, this draft of a poem is less revealing as far as content is concerned than as an emotional document. Bearing numerous crossings-out and evidently written quickly and often in unreadable handwriting, this note shows the increasingly difficult work situation, in which Vertov found himself in the mid-1930s. In the text the author tries to encourage himself to continue his search, not to complain and not to fall into inactivity while waiting for bureaucratic developments - in 1934 "Tri pesni o Lenine" did not open in the cinemas of the Soviet Union for almost a year. Besides Michail Kaufman, the names for Il’ja Kopalin and Irina Setkina are also mentioned here. The film (and finally its success) is here celebrated by Vertov als a "day of celebration for Kinoglaz".
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Linked with the following movies:

Tri pesni o Lenine
(Drei Lieder über Lenin / Three Songs of Lenin)