Abram Room – Yevrei na zemle aka Jews on the Land (1927)

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A 20-minute documentary of Jewish settlement in the Yevpatoria district of the Crimea. Exhibiting a certain amount of Jewish irony, Jews on the Land opens with scenes of a war-devastated shtetl (all that is left of the central market is a single pathetic fish stall), than shows an elderly Jew wandering about an even more desolate wilderness. Soon, however, sod-brick settlements rise and, as irrigation ditch criss-cross the once –barren plain, the now- productivised Jews are equally transformed: a new-born baby is named Forget-You-Sorrow. Tractor drivers and Young Pioneers’ are given particular pride of place and the film-makers emphasise that, among other livestock, these new Jewish peasants are raising pigs.
“Inside the film factory” by Richard Taylor, Ian Christie

Filesize: 255.45 Mb ( 267 862 764 bytes )
Play length: 00:17:54.439 (26861 frames)
Video: 672x512 (1.31:1), 25 fps, XviD build 46 ~1990 kbps avg, 0.23 bit/pixel

https://nitro.download/view/DB0C361BE4E3633/Evrei_na_zemle.1927.avi
https://nitro.download/view/5BF525C31931751/Evrei_na_zemle.1927.eng.srt

Language(s):Russian intertitles
Subtitles:English