In Spring + introduction by Ivan Kozlenko
Long considered lost, Mikhail Kaufman’s avant-garde urban symphony captures Kyiv in 1929 as nature sprouts and people reemerge from a frosty winter.
1929, dir. Mikhail Kaufman, Soviet Union, 59 minutes
In Spring was Mikhail Kaufman’s first solo film after a period of collaboration with his brother Dziga Vertov and filmmaker Elizaveta Svilova, which ended over artistic differences during the making of another city symphony classic, Man With a Movie Camera (1929). Hailed as a masterpiece of Ukrainian avant-garde cinema and prime example of its ‘cine-eye’ theory, In Spring creates a joyful and lyrical portrait of Kyiv in which city and countryside, nature and architecture, living beings and machines all cohabitate.
During the Soviet Era, In Spring was cut and censored multiple times. The film was considered lost until 2005 when a copy was discovered at an archive in Amsterdam.
Ivan Kozlenko is a film scholar, curator and former director of the Dovzhenko Film Centre.
Mon 29 Sep 2025
18:30
Cinema 2
