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Letter from Siberia
Lettre de Sibérie
1957 · Film · documentary · 62 min
Directed by Chris Marker
A faceless traveller takes a journey through the barren reaches of a Siberia caught between tradition and modernity, imparting his philosophical musings on its people and places, wildlife and culture.
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Chris Marker is a french cinematographer. His works is unregular but this documentary (Letter from Siberia) is great. (Also, he is the author of the photo movie La Jetée, here in english https://vimeo.com/46620661, which inspired the movie 12 Monkeys !). He has communist leaning from what I remember but it doesn't feel like he's using cinema to convince you about his political beliefs, and he doesn't defends USSR, although he is culturally very interested in this country.
This excerpt is about media manipulation if you didn't understand it, it shows how it feels to change the voice over and keep the same images.
Why do you think it's BS, out of interest?
Sorry I wasn't talking about this documentary, it's not that bad, what he says in it is pretty obvious.