In Spring

The film shows Kyiv in 1929. The waking of the city and the rebirth of the natural world are tied together inside the same account. Streets, people going to work, water and trees pass one after another. The camera lingers above all on the faces of children. The account builds no plot; it says what it feels for the city in images. It is a work from the last years of silent cinema and there is no voice over. Mikhail Kaufman’s editing sets the rhythm and the turn of the season makes the frame of the film. Built as a portrait of a city, the work tells not events but the condition of a place. The fifty four minutes are given to one city. The Soviet documentary was completed in 1929.