Aleksandr BALAGIN
Александр БАЛАГИН
Aleksandr BALAGUINE
Georgi ZELONJEV-SHIPOV
Георгий ЗЕЛОНДЖЕВ-ШИПОВ
Gueorgui ZELONDJEV-CHIPOV
USSR (Georgia), 1928, 48mn 
fiction
5 minutes
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5 минут

 

 5 minutes

 5 minut

Other titles : Пять минут, которые потрясли мир / https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261002/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1
 
Directed by : Aleksandr BALAGIN (Александр БАЛАГИН), Georgi ZELONJEV-SHIPOV (Георгий ЗЕЛОНДЖЕВ-ШИПОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr BALAGIN (Александр БАЛАГИН), Georgi ZELONJEV-SHIPOV (Георгий ЗЕЛОНДЖЕВ-ШИПОВ)
 
Cast
Pavel POLTORATSKY (Павел ПОЛТОРАЦКИЙ)
Ivan CHUVELEV (Иван ЧУВЕЛЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Nikolay ANOSHCHENKO (Николай АНОЩЕНКО)
Production design : Sergey KOZLOVSKI (Сергей КОЗЛОВСКИЙ)
Production : Госкинпром Грузии (Goskinprom Gruzii)
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
On January 27, 1924, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the Soviet people and the workers of other countries said goodbye to their leader with a silence of five minutes. Factories, trains, steamboats and cars came to a standstill. At this moment, an American dealer, rushing towards a lucrative business, orders the Chinese driver, who stopped the car, to continue on his way...
The film includes footage from the funeral of V.I. Lenin. It is worth noting that on January 22, 29, simultaneously with the release of this film, another one-part film "Exactly four" ("Five minutes") was released, directed by a graduate of the National Customs Committee - B. Kanter. The plots of the films were distinguished only by the fact that in the first "hurried to make a deal" - an American, and in the second - an Englishman.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
En images: dix superbes affiches de films soviétiques d'avant-garde, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Georgian films on kinoglaz.fr, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023