Great Is My Country

"Vast is my Native Land", also known as "Great is my Country", (Russian: "Sheroka Strana Moya Rodnaya", a literal translation of "My Spacious Homeland", from the song of the same name, which is heard in the film, by the Russian composer Isaac Dunaevsky) — was the first film shot in the Soviet wide screen film format known as Kinopanorama. The film was directed by Roman Karmen, one of the most famousFact|date=August 2008 people in documentary films in the Soviet Union.

The Sovcolor film, which is 90-minutes in length, was premièred on 28 February 1958 at the Mir Kino Theatre in Moscow. The film was screened throughout the USSR and in June and July, 1958 — in an edited version — at the Mayfair Theatre in New York City in conjunction with Soviet Trade Exhibition at the New York Coliseum.

Release in France on 12 May 1961 as "Pokoriteli morya".

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* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=180632 "New York Times" review]