Brno, March 27, 2014
Dr. Lars Karl
The Empire and “The Great Family of Peoples”
The Fires of Baku (Ogni Baku, SU 1950)
Rsa Takhmasib
(Rsa Abbas-Kuli ogly)
(1894-1980)
Aleksandr Zarkhi
(1908-1997)
Iosif Kheifits
(1905-1995)
Iosif Stalin
1949
Alibala Aliev (Mirza Aliev)
1950
Alibala and Garcia (Petr Arzhanov)
Winston Churchill (Viktor Stanitsyn)
“Iosif Stalin
addresses a Meeting
of Oil Workers
in Baku, Azerbaijan.”
(Soviet Art, 1948)
Photos of Iosif Stalin
in a Baku Police File
March 1908
Images of Stalin,
typical for Soviet films of the time:
•Iconographical – Stalin as the “pillar
of strength”.
•Stalin as commander. He gives
orders and the scene is set during the
Second World War. Moreover, he is at
war with a hostile nature that needs to
be overcome for the good of all
humanity – with him at the top.
•Stalin as demiurge, godlike creator.
Like a god he shapes the nature that he
finds according to his will, turning it
into a new one, into his world: “In the
beginning was the Word.” (John 1:1)
•Water as a symbol of eternity. In this
case, it is the eternal era of happiness
that begins with Stalin – an era of
harmony, without conflicts.
Stalin (Mikheil Gelovani) in “The Fall of Berlin”
(SU 1949)
Russian Engineer Shatrov
(Nikolai Okhlopkov)
Kazakh Delegate Kadyr
(Serke Kozhamkulov)
The Free Woman of the Orient: Mirvarid (Nadzhiba Melikova)