Babrov, Georgi
[Director];
Viktorov, Victor
[Other];
Serov, Yuri
[Other];
Babazhan, Alexei
[Other]
;
Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow,
Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
Footnote:
Archive Reference: N-504037
Reproduction of USSR, 1967
Description:
Documentary looking at sporting success in the Soviet Union, and linking sport and fitness with a healthy society prepared for work and war
Footage includes pre-1917 images of sport and leisure for the privileged classes in Tsarist Russia. It follows the story of creating a new, healthy proletarian class through the world wars and into the 1950s and 1960s, concluding with a look at international sporting success, for example at the Olympics