Exposition Internationale de 1937. Cinema de L' U. R. S. S. programme

S. l. (Paris): s. n., 1937. Softcover. Small broadside; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; salmon-colored sheet, printed in black; fragile, with several closed cuts and punctures to lower margin; a few crease lines; very good- condition.A scarce survivor of cinema ephemera, the broadside presented the Russian movies to be screened on June 25, 1937 at the Paris World Fair, known as the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, in Paris. As advertised, the films were all original, with French subtitles, and included "Vers le Pole Nord," "20me Fete du Travail en U. R. S. S," and "Le Depute de la Baltique" (Baltic Deputy) - the Russian drama, an early forerunner of Soviet historic realism, which encapsulated the 1917 Revolution through the eyes of botanist and physiologist Kliment Timiriazev. The movie was directed by Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi and would win Grand prix des arts decoratifs a Paris.