FIRST SOUND SOVIET FILM: "ROAD TO LIFE" 1934 MOVIE HERALD

Description

Original Herald from Uruguay and Argentina in South America. This kind of gorgeous heralds are quite scarce, they were printed by a local distributor (Max Glücksmann) just during a short period of time between the late 1920's and the late 1930's. Usually printed on both sides, in full color or in duotone inks featuring Art Deco style, they show great graphics from the films advertised. Most advertise a single feature movie, while a few examples advertise double movie programs.
Local Title: EL CAMINO DE LA VIDA
Original Title: PUTYOVKA V ZHIZN
Year / Country: 1931 - SOVIET UNION
Company: Intorgkino, Moscow
Director: Nikolai Ekk
Starring: Nikolai Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov, Aleksandr Novikov
Size: 178 mm x 131 mm
Condition: Good (Wrinkled areas all over)
Ref #: B-137
Herald advertises this film as shown at CINE DORE from Uruguay on Saturday, October 6, 1934
Comments:
Road to Life (Putyovka v zhizn) is a 1931 Soviet drama film written and directed by Nikolai Ekk. The film won an award at the 1932 Venice International Film Festival, which went to Ekk for Most Convincing Director.
It was the first sound film in the Soviet Union, and the first to be win a Best Director award at any film festival.
Plot:
In Moscow operates one of the countless gangs of street kids – Zhigan's gang. The boys who belong to it have been living on the street for a long time. In December 1923 police forces conduct a raid, and catch about a thousand homeless children. Almost all of them are distributed to orphanages. But there are several dozen minors who run away from all the orphanages to which they are sent. For example, Mustafa has escaped 8 times and had to be returned 15 times by the authorities. What is one supposed to do with them? This leads to a decision to send them over to a house of correction, that is, a prison for minors.
Sergeev offers another solution: to create a labor commune. The children will work as carpenters, shoemakers, carpenters, remain free citizens, they will feed themselves. But not with theft, instead with work ... Good intentions as always, are good only in theory. In practice, the former street kids do not immediately become honest hard workers.
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