Cinema: The Russians Nobody Knows

(MARCH OF TIME) is a scoop by a British UNRRA cameraman, Peter Hopkinson, who has made more intimate shots of Russian life than most foreigners manage to, and has succeeded in bringing his film out uncensored. There are revealing glimpses of plain Russians in the streets, in hospitals, in theaters, in churches, in schools, in orphanages. Some of the film's most interesting revelations are not breathless news, but are very convincing. Among the strong impressions left by this study of scores of faces: 1) Russians are bitterly poor but their fortitude evidently goes...

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