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>1th root: sotsgorod: 16mm, color/black and white, 92 minutes.

During the Twenties and Thirties the Soviet Union invited Western European specialists to co-operate on the design of completely new cities in the Urals and Siberia. The socialist cities, `sotsgorods´ for short, had to be constructed at high speed to house the future miners and foundry workers of the Russian hinterland.

Filled with ideals and eager for adventure, modern architects from Holland, Germany, Switzerland and Austria headed for the future workers' paradise. A few years later most of them returned. Without photos or drawings and without stories... What had happened to them? Had they built any cities at all?

AIK Kuzbass, Van Loghem, Sebald Rutgers, Jan Rutgers
Bauhaus Brigade, Hannes Meyer, Philip Tolziner
Gorstroi Project, the later junction of the Bauhaus and May Brigades
Brigade May, Ernst May, Grete Lihotzki, Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam

excerpt of the movie, sotsgorod is distributed by Icarus films New York