Lenin & cinema

[Robert A. Rothstein]

Michael Denner wrote:

>Dear SEELANGers!
>
>So, every book on Russian cinema has somewhere, on the overleaf or the
>back cover or in the first paragraph, a quote from Lenin about cinema
>being the most important of all arts. In all the books I have on Russian
>cinema (in Russian and in English), there's not a single citation for
>that quote. I'm beginning to think it apocryphal.
>
>
>

The 2nd edition of K. V. Dushenko's _Slovar' sovremennykh tsitat_ (2002,
p. 240) lists "Iz vsekh iskusstv dlia nas vazhneishim iavliaetsia kino"
with the following comment:

    Iz besedy s Lunacharskim v nachale marta 1922 g.  V toi forme fraza
privoditsia v sravnitel'no pozdnikh vospominaniiakh Lunacharskogo
"Beseda s V. I. Leninym o
    kino" (1925); ran'she Lunacharski privodil ee v drugikh variantakh.


Bob Rothstein

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