Cinema

This 1936 film by Yefim Dzigam premiered on October 18 at Madrid's Capitol cinema, in a screening attended by Manuel Azaña along with several other members of the government. It tells the story of the Soviet sailors who defended Petrograd against the White Army in 1919.

This film, made in 1934 by the Vasilyev brothers, was a favorite of Stalin's. It premiered on May 7, 1936, in Barcelona, and on November 2 in Madrid. The plot tells the story of the struggle and death of a Ukrainian soldier fighting the Russian White Army.

This was the first film produced by the Komsomol studios in Odesa, in 1936. Komsomol was the Communist Party's youth organization in the Soviet Union. Written by the Hungarian poet, Béla Balázs, the film tells the story of a boy who is persecuted by the Nazis because of his family's political views.

Circus was a musical comedy made in 1936 that was first shown in Madrid in February 1937, at the Monumental cinema. It tells the story of a circus performer who gives birth to a Black baby in the US, and becomes the victim of racist attacks. She is taken in by the USSR, where she becomes a huge star.

This film by Ivan Pyryev from 1936 was first shown in May 1937, at Madrid's Avenida cinema, and shows how to spot saboteurs who have infiltrated organizations.

Soviet propaganda in the Spanish Civil War made use of film as an extremely popular medium through which to reach a large part of the population. A similar phenomenon had been observed following the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Soviet films eulogized the achievements of the Russian Revolution and the power of the Red Army.

This docudrama, directed by Fernando Roldán and first shown in August 1937, tells the story of life under siege in Madrid. It explores daily life in the Republican zone from an anarchist point of view.

This film was produced in 1937 by Spain's General War Commission, which was created by Prime Minister Largo Caballero in October 1936 with the aim of "spiritually and socially" influencing combatants. The film was shown in the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World's Fair, between April and July the same year.