Animated Soviet Propaganda Onward to the Shining Future: Samoyed Boy

Samoyed Boy, 1928, directed by V. and Z. Brumberg, N. Khodataev, O. Khodataeva. 3rd Factory of Sovkino. Made as a silent film. In the Soviet Union everyone was suppose to have equal opportuny. In Samoyed Boy, a Nenetz (Eskimo) boy exposes the tricks of the shaman (tribal medicine man, magician) who members of the tribe believe can cure them by putting animal spirits into their bodies. Humiliated, the shaman drives the boy from the village. He is rescued by a Soviet ship and taken to Leningrad where he studies at special University for Northern Peoples beneath the portraits of Marx and Lenin. Irina Margolina (documentary filmmaker): A classic of Soviet animation. The first film for children. It was done in the tradition of the primitive painting of the USSR s Northern peoples (like Chukcha and Eskimos). It was the first Soviet film based on culture of the Northern people. Help us caption translate this video