Letter of Siberia

Lettre of Siberia is a Documentary film carried out by Chris Marker in 1957.

Camera: Sacha Vierny, reciting: Georges Rouquier, music: Pierre Barbaud, leader: Georges Delerue, soloist: Ella Timourkhan, effects special and animation: Equip Arcady, drawings: Remo Forlani, monteuse: Anne Sarraute, voice: Catherine Couey and Henri Pichette, assistants Marie-Claire Pasquier, Jasmine Chasney, the Ouchatik bear, the Gorgô owl, documentation: Armand Pierrard, sound: Marignan studio, Laboratory Flash, Argos-Films production and Procinex.

A scene is particularly memorable and funny: a bus in the streets of Yakoutsk, the workers, having a cast Yakouste. This catch of sight is described with three recoveries according to three types of comments:

the glorification of the socialist mode: Iakoutsk, capital of the Soviet socialist Republic of Yakoutie is a modern city, where comfortable buses… picturesque representing boreal regions etc.
a neutral description: With Iakoutsk, where the modern houses gradually gain on dark the old workings… Yakoute afflicted with strabism etc.
a diatribe against collectivism: Iakoutsk, with the disaster reputation, is a dark city where while the population painfully piles up in red buses blood… a worrying Asian etc.

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