Joris Ivens is a great figure in documentary cinema, but this is just a dull, repetitive and misleading Socialist Realist propaganda piece. 35mm.online offers far greater Polish documentaries and if you must see a Stalin era Polish film director, make it Tadeusz Makarczynski. A Valparaiso is a far superior film by Ivens.
I really don't know what to say... If you know socialist realist cinema, then there is nothing else to present: the enemy is bad, we are always good, we can achieve the absurdly impossible and a painfully didactic repetition of themes. The film is simple, shallow propaganda with very little in the way of entertainment value, visual experimentation or intellectual depth.
Do yourself a favour and stay away from this film.
I really don't know what to say... If you know socialist realist cinema, then there is nothing else to present: the enemy is bad, we are always good, we can achieve the absurdly impossible and a painfully didactic repetition of themes. The film is simple, shallow propaganda with very little in the way of entertainment value, visual experimentation or intellectual depth.
Do yourself a favour and stay away from this film.