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Wigwam (Shining Ray) The Bridge Breakers Rain We Are Building Philips Radio Creosote Komsomol (Song of Heroes) New Earth Borinage The Spanish Earth The 400 Million Power and the Land Indonesia Calling The First Years Song of the Rivers The Seine Meets Paris Before Spring Italy Is Not a Poor Country Travel Notebook A Valparaiso The Mistral Pour le Mistral Far from Vietnam The 17th Parallel How Yukong Moved the Mountains A Tale of the Wind Magnitogorsk, Forging the New Man		Komsomol(Song of Heroes) Pesn o gerojach (Komsomol) 1933 / Russia / sound / B&W / 50 min / 35mm Director, Editor: Joris Ivens Script: Josif Skljoet Camera: Alexander Sjelenkov Music: Hanns Eisler Production company: Mesjrabpom film This documentary is dedicated to the young communists of Western Europe. It shows the construction of a blast furnace in Magnitogorsk in the Ural Mountains. The young workers of the Komsomol organization take responsibility for developing their country, the USSR, as a part of the First Five-Year Plan. The film shows hard work on construction, mining, and the transportation of coal, and includes a short animated sequence meant to provide the viewer with a glimpse of the future. The film's opening sequence, a montage, gives the film a propagandistic feel. After this introduction the powerful images and editing, combined with the soundtrack featuring music by Hanns Eisler, result in a truly lyrical ode to the young socialist workers and their labor. A TOPICS A Bird's Eye View of a Documentary Career HELEN VAN DONGEN Kees Bakker beforenext COPYRIGHT:Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee