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Soviet Tajikistan: Arrival of the first train in Dushanbe (1929)

Soviet Tajikistan: Arrival of the first train in Dushanbe (1929)

Documentary
Release Date: 1929, October 16
Directors: Vasiliy Kuzin, Artyom Shevich, Nikolay Gezulin
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Tajikfilm, Tajikkino

Overview:

On September 11, 1929, the first Termez-Dushanbe train arrived at the newly built station in the Tajik capital. However, not only the train was the first that day - the shots of the arrival of the locomotive, as well as people waiting for it with excitement, became the basis of the first Tajik film.

Keywords:

short film propaganda film magazine silent newsreel agitation