Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass Excerpts

Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass Excerpts Dir. Dziga Vertov. Girl puts on headphones & listens to early radio broadcast - CUs. Drunks outside elaborate cathedral - people crossing themselves - not St Basil’s. Atonal music / sound effects. 18:52:25 Extract of early radio broadcast re Communist march - “Leningrad Speaking” - cuts back to woman w/ headphones. Camera at low angle facing conductor as he starts to conduct unseen musicians playing avant-garde music - CU woman listening on headphones. Montage: people leaving churches - bell ringing - kissing icons - drunks staggering & gesturing at camera, some fighting - atonal music mixed w/ choir singing. 19:00:12 Train whistle / factory hooter letting off steam, seen through electricity wires. Top shot marching band along street - children girl guides & boy scouts ? following. 19:01:36 Si. CU face. Montage repeated w/ shots of people crossing themselves outside cathedral / kissing icons / drunks in street etc. - views of church inc. top shot from statue on roof down to street - carved turrets. Cutaways to woman listening to headphones - CU face. Russia / USSR. Religion - Catholicism. Avant-Garde. Documentaries. 1930s. NB Several sections re-dubbed and speed corrected - mute.