Released under the title 235 000 000 Faces, this remarkable film came out in 1967, the year that marked the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution and the founding of the Soviet Union. The number 235 million refers to the 1966 population of the USSR, then the largest country in the world. The film’s unseen ambition was to create a collective portrait of all the citizens of ...
This Herz Frank's documentary is influenced by his work in the evening papers. Many of his journalistic reports became material for his future films. "Restricted Area" is one of those movies. As a newspaper correspondent, Frank went to the courts, followed the criminal chronicle - as a lawyer he was especially interested in it. In 1963 he made a photo essay in Cesis colony for ...
Удивительно, что этот двадцатиминутный фильм, по существу, не имел противников (не знаю, хорошо это или плохо). Он имел успех в самых различных аудиториях: в колхозе Лачплессис в Риге, в Казахстане на всесоюзном фестивале в Алма-Ате и в Оберхаузене (ФРГ) на Международном конкурсе короткометражных фильмов, где был удостоен высоких наград.
Цитаты из книги Герца Франка Карта ...