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Enthusiasm Symphony of the Donbass
Produced by "Ukrainfilm" Kiev 1930
Scenario and director: Dziga Vertov Assistant director: E. Svilova
Photography: B. Cejtlin Sound: P. Shtro
Executive producer: Nemirovski
The image and sound of the documentary material
were recorded on location using the Shorin system
in mines, factories and other real locations.
The following music was used in the film:
A march by composer Timofeev dedicated to the "Symphony of the Donbass".
The final chord of Shostakovich's symphony "The First of May".
Attention, Attention! Radio Leningrad speaking.
RW 3 - RW 3. Wavelength 1000.
Broadcasting the march: "The Last Sunday" from the film "Symphony of the Donbass".
The pope is chained to the capital's moneybag.
Away with the steeples!
"The struggle against religion is the struggle for new life".
"Young Worker's Club".
"Lenin Collected Works v.12 ".
KINO
PLAN
TOWARDS SOCIALISM
It happened in the Donbass,
during the Five-Year Plan.
In 1930.
There's no more coal.
SHORTAGE
The country needs to be given coal!
"Against slacking in work"
And what are we going to do now?
We need to make a clear demand:
To the production advisors and to the shock workers.
We need to make leeway instantly!
But can a single individual accomplish that?
A bureau secretary? The union chairman?
The mine administrator, the technician? Anybody? Certainly not!
The whole Komsomol needs to be mobilised.
All the shock workers all workers, actually.
It must be ensured that the working masses in the mines
are included in making leeway.
I, a shock worker from pit #1,
promise to overfulfill the Plan till the year's end...
28 000 tons!
I, a shock worker from pit #9,
promise to exceed the quota this year and to deliver 28 000 tons!
In the Five-Year Plan's third year of struggle,
the Donbass' miners must bear in mind
that their socialist country's primary industries depend on their efforts.
We, members of the Komsomol go to the Donbass frontlines!
Here come the shock workers!
Here come the Enthusiasts!
Here comes the metal.
Here comes the coal.
Donbass launches the attack.
The boiler house will meet the quota of the Plan's decisive year.
Coal.
Coal for the factories.
An affair of honour.
A point of glory.
A matter of courage and of heroism.
We are fighters in the front-line of fire.
The Plan was fulfilled in four year's time!
For the Communist party's cause!
For socialism's cause!
"Hail socialism's achievement the communist mode of operation!".
In the days of struggle to fulfill the Plan
of the proletariat's inconceivable heroism
of the boost in socialist rivalry, mines and factories proclaim:
Socialism's construction advances at full speed.
Fully laden waggons leave the Donbass.
Waggons laden with coal and steel.
Kolkhoz peasants, Brigade #4 from the Donbass!
Mind our mission!
The harvest is our challenge!
We, Brigade #4 commit ourselves
and declare ourselves shock workers.
We commit to harvesting swiftly and meticulously.
We call on Brigade #6 to follow our example.
Endow new generations with socialism!
Hail collectivisation!
Hail the dictatorship of the proletariat!
Hail the shock worker's movement!
"Stride towards socialism".
Synch by Dan