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Russia Aflame is a film directed by Charles Chauvel
Russia Aflame (1943)
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Directed by Charles Chauvel
Russia Aflame is a 1943 short Australian documentary directed by Charles Chauvel.
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The film opens before the Nazi attack on Russia in June 1941, and shows peasants at work in fields along the Volga, shepherds looking after their sheep on the steppes, and crop cultivation in the Ukraine. It then deals with the consequences of the invasion, including the role of women in the war effort and Russian factory production.Comments
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