"The 25th - the First Day" ("25-е Первый День")

Soviet animated propaganda film with English subtitles. A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, "The 25th - the First Day" recounts that day using art from the revolutionary period. Look out for Tatlin's Tower and Petrov-Vodkin's "Petrograd Madonna." The film features music by Dmitri Shostakovich, poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky, and a rousing speech by V.I. Lenin. Perhaps most importantly, it is one of the few films by Yuri Norshteyn that is rarely seen, and has never been fully subtitled in English, until now. Directed by Yuri Norshteyn and Arkadiy Tyurin for Soyuzmultfilm studio in 1968. Translated by Dennis Keen for the Russian program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with the Mayakovsky poem and Lenin speech adapted from outside sources.