The Russians Nobody Knows

(MARCH OF TIME) is a scoop by a British UNRRA cameraman, Peter Hopkinson, who has made more intimate shots of Russian life than most foreigners manage to, and has succeeded in bringing his film out uncensored. There are revealing glimpses of plain Russians in the streets, in hospitals, in theaters, in churches, in schools, in orphanages. Some of the film's most interesting revelations are not breathless news, but are very convincing. Among the strong impressions left by this study of scores of faces: 1) Russians are bitterly poor but their fortitude evidently goes as deep as their poverty; 2) religion, among religious Russians, is still a strong and deep-rooted influence; 3) children are treated with kindness and gayety, and the treatment blooms in their faces; 4) the Soviet bureaucracy, whatever its sins and shortcomings, appears to have a strong sense of responsibility toward the masses--if none toward individuals--and the masses respond with loyalty; 5) unlike the handful of official Russians who make the headlines, the millions of ordinary Russians represented in this film look as likable and trustworthy as any other large group of human beings.

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