Turksib

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Turksib

Released May 24, 1930

57m

Documentary

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Soviet engineers and workers try to build a railway through Central Asia.

Mordaunt Hall

New York Times

Turksib is one of the most interesting films that has come out of Russia.

Jan 22, 2021

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Variety Staff

Variety

The picture is well photographed and is excellent, pictorially, but It is strictly an educational of the well-known category and would be effective if clipped to short length.

Jan 22, 2021

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H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Close Up

We are ourselves almost too deeply involved with the beauty and the miracle of sheer thought transfiguration to realize what a stride forward art has taken, film art if you wish to deride and to deify that much maligned abstraction.

Jan 22, 2021

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Robert Hage

Motion Picture News

Here's a picture without a story, a scenario or a cast, but it grips the attention from start to finish and, although it is not classified by its Russian producers as an "epic," It justifies that appellation more than many others ballvhooed thusly.

Jan 22, 2021

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Harry Alan Potamkin

The New Masses

I have called Turksib an ode. It is more than an ode. It is more than an ode, though it does not become the epic its momentum strives after. This is by no means frustration.

Sep 6, 2019

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

The propagandist elements feel less overt even while hitting on the common Soviet theme of technological progress.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 6, 2019

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A moving masterpiece that lets you feel the value of hard work and human perseverance. The Soviet propaganda is extremely powerful in this well-made classic.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Victor A. Turin

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Viktor Shklovsky

Screenwriter

Yakov Aron

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Boris Frantsisson

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Yevgeni Slavinsky

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Synopsis

Soviet engineers and workers try to build a railway through Central Asia.

Director: Victor A. Turin
Screenwriter: Viktor Shklovsky, Yakov Aron
Distributor: Amkino Corporation
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Russian
Release Date (Theaters): May 24, 1930, Original
Runtime: 57m