Russia Aflame
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| Russia Aflame | |
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| Directed by | Charles Chauvel |
| Produced by | Charles Chauvel |
Production company | Columbia |
Release date |
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Running time | 12 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Russia Aflame is a 1943 short Australian documentary directed by Charles Chauvel.[1]
The film opens before the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, and shows peasants at work in fields along the Volga, shepherds looking after their sheep on the steppes, and crop cultivation in Ukraine. It then deals with the consequences of the invasion, including the role of women in the war effort and Russian factory production.[2]
Production
The film was made from a number of shorts imported to Australia from the local chapter of Friends of the Soviet Union. Columbia's Sydney office hired Charles Chauvel to reconstruct and dramatise the story into a new film.[3]
