The Send-Off

The Send-Off

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1963

Runtime

0h 20m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Ceļamaize

Production Companies

Rīgas kinostudija

Director

Aivars Freimanis

Description

While shooting a documentary about a 'Komsomol' class who all went to save a struggling kolkhoz, the filmmakers also shot mud, broken tractors, flooded fields. The film turned scandalous and was not screened, because of it allegedly being anti-Soviet: defamatory of collective farming.