Boris Pumpyanskiy

From the start, Vertov made himself known as an irreconcilable enemy of “acted films,” which he regarded as a violation of truth. At the peak of World War II, however, such lofty artistic principles proved impractical. Vertov’s poetic and patriotic For You, Front! is a fiction film with a script and two actors. In a letter to her fiancé, a soldier on the front, Saule asks if there is anything he needs from “our beloved Kazakhstan.” Yes there is, he replies: lead, which can be used to make bullets to kill the enemies of “our beloved country.”

The Oil Symphony is a film about the heroic efforts of Azerbaijani labourers drilling for oil.

The film is about 3 friends falling in love with a girl. One of them changes his bad character under the girl's influence.

Loosely based on Aleksandr Kuprin's short story "The White Poodle".

Having discovered oil in the region, rigs are built and workers called to help with its extraction.