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

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Mordaunt Hall New York Times 01/22/2021
Turksib is one of the most interesting films that has come out of Russia. Go to Full Review Variety Staff Variety 01/22/2021
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. Go to Full Review H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Close Up 01/22/2021
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. Go to Full Review Robert Hage Motion Picture News 01/22/2021
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. Go to Full Review Harry Alan Potamkin The New Masses 09/06/2019
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. Go to Full Review Mattie Lucas From the Front Row 08/06/2019
3/4
The propagandist elements feel less overt even while hitting on the common Soviet theme of technological progress. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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11/08/2007 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. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Victor A. Turin

Director

Viktor Shklovsky

Screenwriter

Yakov Aron

Screenwriter

Boris Frantsisson

Cinematographer

Yevgeni Slavinsky

Cinematographer

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Movie Info

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